Show I THE TilE APOTHEOSIS OF LINCOLN I BY JOHN JOlIN TE TEMPLE GRAVES New York Feb 11 This This da lay clay Is 13 the tho apotheosis of Lincoln He lIe Is In ou our parks our galleries our museums and our libraries His face race la is familiar tous tous to tous and Ills his hl us as George Washington ton wor words s aro current maxims He Hc Is on our lips and In our hearts If If not th the first then side by side with the first American And his monuments are of t tsong monuments building everywhere monument song of ot stor story and of or sculptured stone We Ve are passing out of the ago age of mortal eulogy into the age of oC material remembrance out out of or tributes that tower Into eulogies that talk talk out out of I monuments that breathe Into mona mona- monuments monuments ments monte that bless In this centennial year ear thero there are three great monuments monument held In advisement for Cor the tho farther anti and perpetual glory of the Illustrious name They are calling for tor a tall tail and stately shaft In Washington to be graven with the tho glories lorl s of or his living and the greater glory of his death They are arc warring for a great memorial memo mern rial university In which the Lincoln spirit shall be written deep Into he tho heart and purpose of our country's country's coun- coun try's ry's youth routh And Congress Con ress and the country countr are planning to build a great t white thoroughfare thoroughfare linking historic to locations In Lincoln's great career ander and anI over aver er It the American of the future futurA 1 nay may ride or r walk In reminiscence and In n patriotic Inspiration Great Thought of or Great People All noble Ideas these these all all great thoughts noughts out of a great people that Rust must and will be realized within the Perhaps the last Is the best and nd nil the greatest Idea of or them all ii It st n must l bo be laid In wisdom and preserved In honor for It will be known through all the tho world as The Lincoln Way Way Voy the thO th way vay white and straight even cven as the Lincoln life Ufe And where shall It be Je laid There are those among amons our people who Ii In noble impulse have named the way wn from tram Washington to Gettysburg Am AntI there thero Is something In sentiment and history to commend the thought of or Gettysburg Gettysburg-a. a sanguinary suggestion at best Gettysburg registered the high tide of or carnage carnase In the bloodiest conflict o or of modern times It was perhaps th the tho decisive battle of oC the war between th the states Bent upon ending the struggle with one effective blow blow Lee Lee at th the head of his legions flushed with victory victory vic vic- tory resolved upon the Invasion o or of Pennsylvania Hitherto the great Virginian Vir- Vir ginian had been successful But the tho eventful hour had come and In the tho tragic repulse of ot PIcketts PIckett's Immortal charge upon Cemetery heights the th Confederacy received the tho mortal morta wound which sent It staggering to the grave at Also to be remembered Is the Gettysburg Gettysburg Gettys Gettys- burg burA oration the oration the most exquisite flower of ot Mr Lincoln's eloquence and an one of ot the classic masterpieces of the world Out But there is a better direction forthe for forthe the tho Lincoln way 0 than to the tho bloodstained bloodstained bloodstained blood blood- stained heights of ot Gettysburg Gettysburg-a a line richer in I suggestion et ripen IE f in n or the Q lion tion infinitely y more Q si significant g Uto majestic purpose and nod achievements and of the tho beneficent and far reaching end of Lincoln's life lire Tho The Lincoln way should lead from Washington to Richmond On to Rich Rich- Richmond mond mood was the time battle battlo cry of ot Lincoln's admi administration a I t ra tion The Tue R ny of f A it thousand millions of ot money mone and a a. out out- outto to tog half million lives liven were poured g ot of the tho nina man t that the b way cry J of It pence peace waa the tho I the tho c way way o r forever united country country- n 3 to tp a K Kl and da McClellan I H and l an i and Sheridan and Grant Giant Thomas hurled In turn with their embattled and legions against that heroic way And when the tho soldiers or of Grant bivouacked at last st In the tho Confederate Conrad Conrad- were crate erate capital a tho l and last dl war be between be- be eer t san tween cat the states t was as ended n forever consecrated In The greatest republic 1 tho hn of ui OL mal 01 or tue O IH baptismal b ti s a 0 ap which Union everlasting unity and tho tIme loved above life lito or death or Lincoln eternal eternal eter eter- was born Into slavery slaver or do dogma ma illustrious life lire nal nol and If It Lincoln lived today his long lon would point tho the way way way- prophetic linger but to lo Richmond but Gettysburg Gettysburg to not the tIle radiant capital of ot our Linking country with the swept siege o 8 common Dixie uniting Dixie uniting the tho old South capital of ot and ond the new South that Is Is that was republic that shall be bo with willi that great the time Potomac of or historic historic his his- Across forever memories and over the Rappahannock Rappa- Rappa tone through all the fateful battles hannock that grapple to the last capital capital capi capi- of ot the final bu bugle lo blew perpetual perpetual perpetual per per- tal where truce truce that that Is the tho i ay ay which martyr President would the republics republic's point u 1 lI From Washington Was hi ng nOn to n The great white way of ot peace The Lincoln way I f |