Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-01-19 | Page 4 | As the Day Approaches.

AS s TILE DAY APPROACHES On Sunday morning Reverend Dr d c hen apol spoke c ot of John Ruskin again and arid in the course of at an unusually Impressive Im flu- I 6 sermon Bermon Illustrated a point with an apostrophe to Lincoln that will wUl not bo bo be forgotten It has been mentioned unnumbered times limes by those thos who heard It it As the da day approaches the thoughts Ose oe Americans turn to the tho Great Greal Eman Eman- Lincoln fills the mind and anil In Inspires the soul of ot tho the citizen Another incident showing the tho same popular tendency throughout tho the country country country coun coun- try was a a. recent article in an Eastern S p paper per touching Lincoln's discovery S of ot Grant That silent general was as Inthe in tho the West est and was winning He Hc must have o had tho the same troubles trouble as did S McClellan and Halleck and alid Hooker but he hc mastered his difficulties and tou fought ht battles And he ho won thorn them Lincoln wanted a commander for all the Union armies He had tried Hooker Hooler and Halleck and McClellan and nd Mcade and found disappointment nut But after Vicksburg the hope swelled In his heart that Grant was tho the man that Grant would not fall tall him Arid Anti when tho the time camo came he placed the honor boner and ond the responsibility on that man And the thc world knows ho how ma mag magnificently ma- ma his faith was ca Justified There Thore W was strong opposition to Grant Glant If Lincoln had been a weaker man he never could have havo stood against tho sentiment of ot hostility w which Grants Grant's name aroused If It he had been an anything less ess than absolutely devoted deyot to the triumph of ot Union arms tho Saving Laying of or the Union ho lie would ouM have hav been driven by that storm of or curious h hatred tred So that there Is tho the strong man manatI mar man atI added cd to the tho w wise man The resolute soul gout reinforcing the sagacious judg judg- ment How IIo- splendid a a. character Lincoln must have havo been S