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Show j BIRTHDAY OF LINCOLN. Had Abraham Lincoln lived until to-day, to-day, he would have been 112 years old. and, furthermore, he would not bae been enshrined in the hearts of his countrymen for one must die In Airier-ica Airier-ica to be accorded unstinted praise. With our political jealousies, we deny to any man living, who is identified t with one or the other party, his Just dua Abraham Lincoln s life is the great cot inspiration we have in the mould lng of the ambitions of boys and young men. No boy ever faced more of the adversity of life than did Abraham Lincoln; none ever reached to h Leber station. One of the oratorical gems ol the English language is Lincoln's (Jettys-burg (Jettys-burg speech, delivered November 19, 1S63. while the war was still on. It never grows old and been repeating. It Is as follows -t Fourscore and seven J ears ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived mm in liberty, and d.dk.Ued t" the fl proposition that all m n are ere- fl ated equal. Now we are engaged fl in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or i.ny cfatiOD j so conceived and o dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We i have come to dedicate a portion of fl j that field as a final resting-place fl for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is fl altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. Dut In a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we can fl not consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground The brave men, liv-j liv-j lng and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. Tho fl world will liulo note, nor long re- member, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did fl here. It is for us, the living, rath- er to Be dedicated hero ' to the fl unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly fl advanced. It is rathet lor us to ! bo here dedicated to the task re- malning before US thai (Tom these honored dead we take in-creased in-creased devotion to that cause for fl which they gave the last full raca sure of devotion that we here highly resolve that Muse dead shall not have died in vain thai fl this nation, under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
