| Show TALKS ON O LIFE UFE OF I ABRAHAM LINCOLN Interesting Sermon reached breached on the Emancipator by Rev I Albert Buxton i I GIANT IN SOUL AND BODY I Martyred Presidents President's Strength I and Tenderness Discussed in Pleasing Manner At tho Central Christian church tho the pastor the Rev Rc Dr Albert Buxton preached Sunday morning on Abraham Abraham Abraham Abra ham Lincoln Dr Buxton took three texts one ona from tho tile Bible lIeb Heb 1117 1117 1117 11 17 Abraham Being Bains' Tried Offered up Isaac one of his own paraphrase of ot tho the first Abraham Lincoln Being I Tried Offered up UJ Himself and a third the words of Secretary Stanton whon when Lincoln breathed his last lastow Now ow owlIe lie Belongs to the ARCS Ages Dr Buxton said sold In part The elements elements ele ole ments of or Lincoln's greatness were wera fundamental Foremost of ot all his resolution made the tho man With ith less than twelve months of ot schooling with never a 0 sheet of paper paper used used newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper edges to write down lown the great thought from borrowed books with never a slate the slate the board tire fire shovel scraped clean for tor each fresh sum sum wi with th never a candle candle the tho flickering flame of ot the fireplace Abraham Lincoln Lin Un- cob coin coln acquired such mastery master of language Ian lan guage ua e that on a railway train en route to Gettysburg ho could write that address 38 that will ill live IIvo as a masterpiece masterpiece master piece of ot all an literature In his resolution tion he hc was an American Columbus Columbu dared an Impossible sea sailed straight ahead ohead through Mobile mines and Lincoln dated a greater Impossibility to to cement a 0 divided nation and bring forth a a. national unity where sixty years ears of rivalry had ma made do two sections mutually hostile A giant indeed of ot soul ns as well wen as bod body ho he stretched out those long arms across a n wide vide continent seized the theA A Atlantic coast In one ono hand and reached the other across the and laid hold of ot tho the Western Vestern shore He lie lifted the whole continent and shook it until Its Inland seas BeaM boiled with steamers shook it until all her hor guns belched mire lire shook it until he had shaken the cowardice out of ot th the citizen and ond partisanship out of oC the politician and then he laid it smooth again upon its former Cormor frame un frame un unbroken broken by tho the 10 loss Iota 8 of ot a single state state te unchanged except for tOT Its its- new and costly graves gra But Abr 1 m Lincoln's Lincoln's Lin IAn coln's coins grave e was the most precious o or of orall all for tor whon when he smoothed the tho map back across the prairies and creased it to Its mountains and valleys V ho pinned it there forever safe safo with his hison own o tomb Dr Buxton then alluded d to the bravery of ot a man that could be gentle because Lecause of his nature an and yet et accept a challenge to a 0 duel and name as weapons the longest cavalry cM swords of ot the greatness of ot a n man maim too great reat to divert his great mission to cover er In ing slight ht scratches even In his own character to the tho deep harmony harmon of ot alife a n alife life that could be at nt peace with God GOt nOd and man while directing the most stupendous war of history I once heard a 0 confederate of officer ticer Colonel Watterson call Lincoln Inspired In Its Its- said Dr Buxton I believe bellove he was Inspired but on only 1 as each man may be Tho The call enn of God goes oes forth to ever every man Whom shrill shall I send and who Wilo will vill go 10 for me me And he is In Inspired In iii- d of God who answers this call caU Here am om I I. I send me I |
