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Show out of his way "when he most wants them, while ho always knows where to find tho. other, which stay whore they are left. Thus he learns thus we learn to drop the streaked and speckled globes of falsehood and to hold fast to white angular blocks of truth.- But then comes Timidity, and after her God-naturd, and last of all Polite-behavior, all Insisting that truth must' roll" or nobody can do anything with it;-and so-the -first with her coarse rasp, and tho second with her broad, lllo, and. the third with her silken silk-en sleeve, do so round off and smooth and polish the snow-white .cubes of truth, that, when they havo got a little dingy .by use, It hecomos hard to tell them from tho rolling spheres of falsehood." false-hood." : As with Truth, bo with Life God would have' every boy become a truo man, hut society-made moulds begin to change, and often hinder-the purposes pur-poses of the Almighty. They Bhape and round off character to make it agreeable agree-able to society. Sometimes it Is tho misguided indulgence of parents that mis-shapes the man Into the lngrate; sometimes it is a system of education that enlarges the intellect, at the expense ex-pense of the heart; sometimes it. Is society that makes the man pretend what he is not; Bomctlmes it's a creed which, like an Iron clasp, prevents the soul from truo development; . sometimes some-times It's political ambition that transforms trans-forms what might have been a states- man into a grovelling politician. Abraham Lincoln was not the product prod-uct of any of these influences. When at 29 years of age, he walked into Joshua F. Speed's store in Springfield, Illinois, to buy $17.00 worth of furniture, furni-ture, which he could not pay for, he still possessed In purity, the attributes of the God-made child. He was Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln, the God-made man. - The outside man did not show It. His tall, lank form, six .feet four Inches in height, seemed ungainly and awkward; and tho long linen duster hanging from his frame as if It were a rack, did not make his person more Imposing. Little twinkling gray eyes were half hidden in their deepened sockets. The shadows of sorrow passed pass-ed frequently over his furrowed face, and added to all this, his figure slightly slight-ly stooped. "Oh, how this exterior semblance belled the soul's Immensity!" Immensi-ty!" Let us get beneath the surface. Man is a triple being, made up as' he is of Intelligence. Emotion and Will. By the development and exercise of these three faculties the individual is known. A truly great man will havo them all well developed, and under control, each sering the ends of the others. The world attributes greatness to men who were even deficient in one or more of these powers. There is j Pope, with his massive intellect, satisfying satis-fying the literary wants of an intellectual intel-lectual age. Wc "quote him today in a thousand maxims. - In the literary world he is among the world's leaders, lead-ers, but his emotional nature, like his bodv, was dwarfed. Burns, on the other oth-er hand, with a strong intellect to go with it, had an emotional nature, that has charmed the world. His heart songs strike responsive chords in every , human breast But his will was weak, and lacking in this power, the poet was often humiliated because of-the excess Into which his unchecked emotional emo-tional nature led him. Napoleon Is a type of the indomitable indomit-able will and massive intellect, but lacking in emotion.. Abraham Lincoln was great In the development of his emotion, his intellect in-tellect and his will. No man ever possessed a tenderer i heart The budding of sorrow began when he was about six years old. His father was determined to move from ; Kentucky to Indiana. While the fath-' er was away searching for a new home, the mother's heart was aching at the thoughts of leaving the old one. A little baby brother .had been born in that new cabin, and had died in infancy. in-fancy. The Utile grave was out in the wilderness, and it was hard for the mother to leave it forever. One day she took the boy Abe by the , hand and paid a farewell visit to the I grave. The child in silence beheld the grief of his mother and carried that scene in his memory to his dying day. About three years later he sat by the bedside of his dying mother. From that time, like the Divine Master, he i was "A man of sorrow and acquainted with grief." Lincoln's first experience as a lover .ended so fatally as to rack his soul as nothing up to that time had done. While at New Salem he fell in love i with a young woman, named Ann Rut-1 ledge. She was a beautiful girl, strong of character and refined in manners. Very diffidently and modestly he told her of his love, but in the beginning of this budding happiness, almost before be-fore he could realize what this new experience of joy was, his sweetheart fell sick and died. "To see this flower fade and die ere it bloomed, filled him with the darkest despair. In his sentiments and emotions, emo-tions, Lincoln remained always a primitive prim-itive man, a simple backwoodsman. No elevation of mind or station seemed to affect these elements of his nature. His heart was unchanged to the end. j He never rose superior to its aches and appeals; he could always cry." Years afterward he said, "I really and truly loved the girl and think often of her now, and I have loved the name of Rutledgo to this day." It is said that "Sorrow Is the wasting wast-ing process of tho soul." The strong spirit rebuilds these wasted parts, and emerges from the strain a loftier and diviner being It was bo with Lincoln. This experience and others of like character that came into his life exalted exalt-ed his soul, and made him equal to the greatest trials that ever tugged at a man's heart-strings.. V The development of his Intellect was as natural as - that of his emotional nature. He had only one year's schooling in his whole life, and the branches taught were "Readln. wrlt-in wrlt-in and ciphern to the rule of three." He loved books, and read almost con. Btantly, often neglecting his business in New Salem to read law. - Ho prepared himself as doputy surveyor sur-veyor to John' Calhoun, surveyor for the government. In the almost incredible incredi-ble period of six weeks, and his work in surveying ha never been questioned. ques-tioned. A man .once 'recommended him o study grammar. Lincoln walked six miles to the house of a man who owned one, "collared" the book, as he expressed it, and mastered it in six days. As an Illustration of his ingenuity, let me relate a circumstance that happened hap-pened on tho Sagamoa river. Lincoln and two boys were employed to take a cargo of merchandise, to New Orleans. Or-leans. When they were opposite New Salem, the raft struck a mill dam and stuck. Lincoln rolled up his trousers "five feet, more or less," and amidst a laughiifg crowd on . the shore, Invented In-vented a device by which ho lifted tho I boat off the shoals and was soon float-i float-i lug down the river without having asked or received aid from anyone. When Lincoln was made president he had a well-defined purpose in view To preserve the Union, and restrict slavery. The 'country, became impatient impa-tient for him to act,' to, do something, and a man of weaker will would have yielded to popular clamor. At this time Mr. Hcrndon, Lincoln's law partner, part-ner, wrote as follows: "Lincoln Is a man of heart, ay, as gentle as a woman's and as tender but he has a will as strong as Iron. He, therefore, loves all mankind, hates slavery and every form of despotism. "Lincoln will fail here, namely, if a question of political economy if any question comes up which la doubtful, questionable, which no man. can demonstrate, dem-onstrate, then his friends can rule him; hut, when on justice, right, liberty, lib-erty, the government, the Constitution, Constitu-tion, and the Union, then you may all stand aside; he will rule them, -and no man can rule him no set of men can do it. There is no fail here. This is Lincoln, and you mark my, prediction. You and I must keep the people right; God will keep Lincoln right." - But we have not yet struck the richest rich-est treasure in this great man's ideals. The nearer a man can live in harmony with the attributes of his maker, the greater must ho become. In Abraham Lincoln's life were exemplified Justice, Jus-tice, Mercy, Love and Truth. In his law practice hp always fought for Justice, and he would never make use of a technicality for the purpose of thwarting justice. He tried never to get on . the wrong side of a case. "Yes, there is no reasonable doubt," he said to one who offered him such a case, '"but that I can win the case for you. I can set a whole neighborhood at loggerheads; I can distress a widowed wid-owed mother and her six fatherless children, and thereby get for you six hundred" dollars, which rightfully belongs, be-longs, it appears to mc, as much to them as it does to yoii. I shall not take your case, but "will give a little advice for nothing. You seem a sprightly, energetic man: I would advise ad-vise you to try your hand at. making six hundred dollars in some other way." "Sometimes, after having entered on a case, he discovered that his clients had imposed on him. In his indignation indigna-tion he has even left the court room. Once when the judge sent for him he refused, to return. 'Tell the judge my hands are dirty; I came over to wash them.' " As a soldier In the Black Hawk war, he saved from death the only Indian he and his comrades saw. Through the camp one day there passed an old Indian In-dian who had a pass that he was a friend to the whites. Most of the soldiers sol-diers believed him a spy, and prepared to kill, him. Lincoln In mercy pleaded for the native's life. Seeing his pleadings plead-ings were in vain, this great man threw himself between the Indian and the muskets, thus offering his own life for a poor Indian's, or rather preferring death to participation in Injustice, The only fault attributed to him by his friends was that in pardoning condemned con-demned men, he was guided by mercy, rather than judgment or Justice. "Do you know," he would sometimes say, "how hard it is to let a human being die when the scratch of your pen will save him?" Lincoln loved everything and everybody. every-body. There was no malice in his heart, even for an enemy. He never suffered the spirit of retaliation to enter en-ter his mind. Once when he gave a man a note of Introduction to the secretary, sec-retary, the former returned in great haste, and said tho secretary had an- IN HONOR OF FIRST MARTYRED PRESIDENT : w r Lincoln Memorial Services At First Congregational Church Largely Attencted Apostle D. O. McKay and Judge A. W. Agee . Deliver Discourses Eulogizing "The Man of Peace and War" Dix-Logan Post, Woman's Relief Corps and Lincoln Circle Attend in a Body grlly torn up tho president's card and thrown it In the waste basket. Lincoln Lin-coln manifested no resentment, but exclaimed, ex-claimed, "Well, that is Just like Stanton." Stan-ton." He kissed the little girl who wrote a letter suggesting that he let his whiskers whis-kers grow to improve his looks. Truth was dearer to him than life. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, a friend has quoted him as saying, "I know there i a God, and he hates Injustice In-justice and slavery. I see the storm coming, I know His hand Is in It. If He has a place and work for me and I think He has I believe I am ready. I am, nothing,-but truth is everything." Again when delivering his speech on. "A house divided against Itself cannot can-not stand," he said, when his friends protested; "Friends, tho time has come when these sentiments should bo uttered; ut-tered; and if it 1b decreed that I should go down because ot this speech, then let me go down linked with the truth." Abraham Lincoln tried as faithfully as any man that ever' lived to excnv plify In his life the fulfilling of tho law of the prophets: "Love the Lord thy God with all thy might, mind and strength, and thy neighbor as thy-: reached manhood without a stain I on his character, without a vice, or any bad habit. He never used tobacco,' drank whisky or profaned the namo of Deity. His stepmother once said of him, "He was the best boy I ever knew or ever hope to know," and that eulogy eulo-gy is equally applicable to him as a man. In honoring this man whose deeds have won him immortality, let us not do so merely in words, but as American Ameri-can citizens enjoying the blessings of the Union God inspired him to save; let us do honor to his memory by following fol-lowing his example In the development of hi3 manhood. Keep in God's mould. Have faith in His laws; live for Justice; bestow mercy; develop love for all God's creatures; crea-tures; and ever bo ready to defend the truth. Those were some of the traits of Abraham Lincoln. "His life was gentle; and the elements ele-ments so -mixed in him, that nature might stand up and say to all tho world, "This was a man." ' Judge A. W. Agee said: I account It an honor that notwithstanding notwith-standing the bad weather, men who fought to preserve-the nation and uphold up-hold its flag are here this evening, i am ' not, however, to speak of their horolc services. It has been my privilege privi-lege and my pleasure, in years that are gone, to attest not merely in words, my appreciation of their services. ser-vices. Ifrom the foundation of the government govern-ment of the United States down to the present time, no other president has over entored upon the duties of his office confronted with such seemingly insurmountable difficulties or burdened burd-ened with such weighty .responsibilities .responsibili-ties as did Abraham Lincoln. From tho time that South Carolina, under the malign Influence of John C. Calhoun, Cal-houn, attempted the nullification ot tfye laws of the national government in '1832. to the time of the election ot the great commoner of Illinois, tho spirit of rebellion against the authority au-thority of the government had Deoa gaining force and headway in tho southern states and the slave oligarchy oli-garchy had become year by year more trogant- and intolerant.' Not content with complete assurance of the right to maintain the institution of slaveiy in the states In which it was then recognized, the southern delegates to the national convention of the Democratic Demo-cratic party which convened in Charleston, Charles-ton, South Carolina, on the 23rd day of April, I860, demanded an explicit platform declaration of the '"right ot citizens to settle in the territories with their slaves a right not to be destroyed or Imparled by congressional congres-sional or territorial legislation." The delegates from the free 6tates of the North, being in the majorlt', would not consent to this declaration, an-i the delegates from seven of the slave states withdrew from the convention, and -nominated John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky for president, while Stephen Ste-phen A. Douglas of Illinois was nominated nomi-nated by the regular convention, after It had adjourned and met again la Daltimore. The Republican party nominated Abraham Lincoln William H. Seward being his principal competitor com-petitor In fact the leading candidate, Mr. Lincoln had sprung into prominence promi-nence mainly through his great debates de-bates with Stephen A. Douglas in their memorable campaign ror United States senator from Illinois, in which, although Mr. Lincoln received a ma-; jorlty of the popular votes of the Btate, a majority were elected to tbe legislature who were supporters ot Senator Douglas the "Little Giant." Lincoln had declared In his speeches that "the Union could not exist halt slave, half free," and the truth or this dclaratlon was soon to be demonstrated. demon-strated. Election of Lincoln Secession of South Carolina. As the time for the election approached, ap-proached, it became evident to well Informed persons that, with the Democratic Demo-cratic party hopelessly divided, the Republican candidates for president and vice-president would be succese-ful; succese-ful; therefore, without watting lor the election, South Carolina began ro foment rebellion, and in December, before the inauguration of Lincoln as president, and without waiting to ascertain as-certain the policies which he would parsue, South Carolina passed the 30-called 30-called Ordinance of Secession, .in December, De-cember, 1S60, and in January, lStil, Senator Toombs of Georgia, deuouncod Abraham Lincoln as "an enemy of the human race, deserving the execration of all mankind," and this, before there had been an official utterance by the president-elect. South Carolina Caro-lina was followed by Georgia, Alabama, Ala-bama, Mississippi, Louisiana. Florida and Texas, so that, when Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated president, he found a southern confederacy in actual oxlstonce, with all departments of government In actual operation. Nor was this all; President Buchanan in his farewell message to congress, had made the fatal and baneful declaration decla-ration that "no power had been delegated dele-gated to congress or to any other department de-partment of the Federal government to coerce a stato Into submission which Is attempting, or has actually withdrawn from the Union." This gave great encouragement to the rebellion. re-bellion. . Sentiment of the North. In tho loyal states, the people became be-came so affrighted at the proapeci3 of war, that every expedient to save the Union even at the sacrifice ot principle was proposed, and in Boston, the very home of liberty, Wendoil rhlHlps, the great anti-slavery advocate, advo-cate, had to be protected by the police, on his way homo after delivering one of his eloquent and patriotic speeches, and George William Curtis, another leading anti-slavery man, was advised not fo appear as a lecturer, in tho old Quaker city, Philadelphia. As the time for the Inauguration approached, great fear was. entertained lest the constitutionally elected president should bo assassinated on his way from his home in Springfield, Illlnoi?, to the national capital. So -great was this fear that Mr. Lincoln was finally persuaded by his friends to paf.s through the city of Baltimore, secretly secret-ly and-at night. .When he assumed the duties of his office the national treasury had been depleted; the military mili-tary stores and equipments were largely in the possession of the enemies of tho Union, and the . navy was scattered upon tho high soaa. Those things were enough to have appalled ap-palled one less patriotic, loss heroic than the great Lincoln. The Man of Peace. In his groat heart ho desired peace above everything else, if it could be maintained with honor and without surrendering the lawful authority ot ihe national government. In his inaugural inau-gural address he therefore pleaded with the people of the South to abandon aban-don their rash and Impetuous policy, and to submit to the lawfully constituted consti-tuted authority of the government. With irresistable logic he showed that popular government itself was on trial; that If a stato might,; at will, refuse to recognize the authority ot the laws of congress and the acts of the national government, the experiment ex-periment of free and popular government govern-ment would bo at an end. He recoq;-r-ized that if tho Union failed, freedom fulled. But while thus pleading for peace and the preservation of the Union, and the supremacy of the law, ho did not hestltatc to declare his purpose to use all the authority of tho government to preserve the union of the states. Addressing himself to the people of the South, he said in his inaugural address: "In your hands, my dls-tatisfled fellow countrymen, not In mine, are the momentous Issues of civil war. The government will not asdall you. You can have no conflict without with-out yourselves being 1 the aggressors. You can have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend It. 1 am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. Though passion may havo strained, It must not break our bonds of affection." At the same time he said: "I shall take care, as the constitution - itself enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be falthrui-ly falthrui-ly executed In all of the states.' While thus recognizing the duty enjoined en-joined upon him by the constitution, so strong was his desire for peace and ihe preservation of tho Union that, to Alexander H. Stephens, who becamo vice president of the confederacy, although al-though he had opposed the dissolution dissolu-tion of the Union at the beginning, ho said, pointing to a sheet of paper: "Stephens, let mo write Union at tho top of that page and you may writ below it whatever else you please." Lincoln's Magnanmity. The kindly magnanimous disposition disposi-tion of Mr. Lincoln was manifested m the formation of his cabinet. He called William H. Seward, his chict rival for the nomination for president, presi-dent, to be secretary of state; Solo-rron Solo-rron P. Chase, to the treasury; Simon Cameron as secretary of war, and Ld-ward Ld-ward Bates to be attorney general all prominent competitors for such nomination. On the 4th day of March, 1861, when Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated inaugu-rated as president, there were only three places In the seven states whic h had already seceded, whero the Hag of the Nation was still flying. These were Fort Sumpter, South Carolina. Fcrt Pickens and Key West. All other forts as well as arsenals, dockyards, mints and custom houses had been seized by the rebel government. Thus the-enemies of the Union were in possession pos-session ot practically all military stores, equipments, arms and munitions muni-tions of wrar. Northern Opposition. The administration was not only confronted with this open rebellion In the South, but In the northern states the efforts of the president at conciliation and for the maintenance ot peace was the subject of merciless criticism from the more radical anti-slavery anti-slavery element, while there was quite a strong element, especially in tho border states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois und Iowa, which gave every aid and encouragement to the rebellion poj-slhle poj-slhle short of actual resistance to the authority of the government. To add to all these dire perplexities, when the call for 75,000 volunteers wa3 issued is-sued by the president, the governors of every slave state which had no: joined In the rebellion, Insolently ie-fused ie-fused to furnish their quota of mon or arms, and the legislature of the state of Indiana refused to turnisn tbe means with which to equip h3r volunteer soldiers. It was only through the patriotic and determined action of the great war governor, Oliver Oliv-er P. Morton, that the necessary meant; wrero raised for this purpose. Attack Upon Fort Sumter. By the 1st of April. 1861. the United States troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, commanded by Major Anderson, An-derson, were almost without pro-viblons pro-viblons and the president determined to send supplies to the relief of Major Anderson and hla brave men. As soon as this became known to the confederate con-federate secretary of war he ordered an assault on the fort and his orders v.ere promptly carried out on the r2r.h day of April, before supplies had reached the garrison. Being without provisions or ammunition. Major Anderson An-derson was compelled to surrender the fort after about thirty-six hours' resistance. re-sistance. The Man of War. ' Up to this hour President Lincoln had pleaded with the South and its sympathizing friends for peace and the ! preservation of the union of states, but the moment this assault was mad-J upon the nation and its authority, this man of peace became a man or war. Ho at once Issued a call for 75.-000 75.-000 volunteer soldiers to suppress this rebellious uprising. From this time foiward he was the great war prenl- : dent a man of Indomitable perseverance persever-ance and unfaltering courago. In ni3 i-essage to congress at an extra session ses-sion which convened on the 4th day of July. 1861, he doclarod that ho toil that ho had no moral right to shrink, or even to count the chances of hi.i own life, in what might follow, saying, say-ing, "Let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts." And without counting the chances of his own life he threw his whole being into the work or the preservation of the Union. He seemed to. feel that In his person was centered cen-tered the fate ot the republic. And in tbe darkest hours of the great strug- is shocked. Rejoicing is turned -into mourning light' into darkness. Even the wiser men of the South realized that a great and mighty force for leaceful reconciliation had been destroyed, des-troyed, and were filled with dread of the consequences which might ensue, while the people of the North, who had sacrificed so much Tor the preservation preser-vation of the Union, were aroused to the highest degree of excitement anl their mourning was mingled with muttered mut-tered threats of retribution. 'Ih? great friend of the masses of the people peo-ple and of the volunteer soldier and sailor, and the widows and children of those who had offered up their lives upon the altar of their country, had fallen the first one ot our mcrtyred presidents. And with tho years that have followed the peoule of this country, and of the world, have come to understand better the noblo characteristics, tbe kind sympathy, unwavering fidelity and unfaltering courage of this great American, while the year6 yet to come, will more fully demonstrate the wisdom and Justice of his course during the darkest hours of the Nation's history and will add greater luster to his great Tame. Though dead, Lincoln lives in ho hearts of his countrymen, beloved as the man of peace and of war. "His arms are unnerved, but his doedJ remain bright, As the stars In. the dark-vaulted heavens heav-ens at night." Xlncoln memorial services were held at the First Congregational church last evening, at which members of the Dix-Logan Post, the Lincoln Circle, Woman's Relief Corps and other citizens citi-zens attended. The house was well filled with patriotic people who greatly great-ly appreciated the exercises. - Tho church, "was decorated with national flags and bunting and cut flowers, tbe bust of Lincoln occupying a conspicuous conspicu-ous place. National anthems were ; sung and Mrs. Cassldy pleasingly rendered ren-dered "O, My United States." Tho "speakers of tho evening were Apostle D. O. McKay, who spoke on the subject, "Abraham Lincoln, the Man," and Judge A. W. Agee, the themo of whose discourse was "Lincoln, "Lin-coln, the Man of Peace and War," Apostle McKay said, in part: . On Friday, February 12th, 1909, 80,-000,000 80,-000,000 grateful countrymen will celebrate cele-brate the one hundredth anniversary ,of Abraham Lincoln's birth. On February Feb-ruary 12th, 1S03, only tho inmates of an obscure log cabin on a farm near Elizabethtown, KJy., know that the child was born. Aside from the probable prob-able visit of some kind, though distant dis-tant neighbor, only the father, mother and a little baby girl knew that anoth-' anoth-' er precious soul had come "trailing clouds of glorv from God, who is its home." Though born in obscurity, reared in poverty, educated only in primitive simplicity, this child became the man to whose greatness our entire en-tire nation and every civilized country coun-try in the world today pays worthy tribute. We do well to honor great mem By so doing the nation is a stronger nation, na-tion, and individuals are better and stronger individuals. ' "Great men, taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however, Imperfectly, upon a great man, without with-out gaining something by him. He is the living light-fountain, which it Is good and pleasant to be near. The light which enlightens, which has enlightened en-lightened 'the darknees of the world, and this not as a kindled lamp only, but rather as a natural luminary shining shin-ing by the gift of Heaven; a flowing light-fountain, as I say, of native ori-glnal ori-glnal Insight, of manhood and heroic nobleness; In whose radiance all souls feel that it is well with them." We rejoice tonight, to join company with the Grand Array of the Republic to do honor to the memory of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln. Standing as we do on an eminence reared by patriotism and love, and removed by time nearly fifty years from the martyr's tragic death, wo commend a comprehensive view of his life's work and- pronounce pro-nounce him great But men of his day were not so favored. They had to search for the gold In hte nature, and found it present far beneath the surface. sur-face. They found it, too. in rich abundance abund-ance and unalloyed purity. God has but one mould in which he makes a man; mankind has many that misshape or unmake him. In the creator's mould the man must be true to his nature, and develop his faculties in harmony with Divine Lnw. "Everyman "Every-man truly lives," says Sir Thomas Brown, "so long as he acts his nature or In some way makes good the faculties fac-ulties of himself." Thus God's man is a truthful man. His life is in harmony with truth because it i3 truth. A great American poet, who commenced life when the baby Lincoln was just six months old, says that "When we are as yet small children, long before the time when those two grown ladies offer of-fer us the choice of Hercules, there comes up to us a youthful angel, holding hold-ing in his right hand cubes like dice, and in his left spheres like marbles. The cubes are of stainless Ivory, and on each Is written In letters of gold, "Truth." The spheres are veined and streaked and spotted beneath, with a dark crimson flush above, where the light falls on them, and in a certain aspect you can make out upon every one of them the three letters, L. I. E The child to whom they are offered very probably clutches at both. Tho spheres are the most convenient things In the world; they roll with the least possible impulse Just where the child would have them. The cubes v.ill not roll at all; thev havo a great talent for standing still, and always keep right side up. But very soon the j young philosopher finds that thing! I which roll so easily are very apt to j roll Into the wrong corner, and to get fie which ensued, he never, lost faith c the perpetuity of the government, nor doubted his ability to subdue the rebellion and preserve the union or the states. . But though commander-i:i-chlef of the greatest army and navy the world had over known, even In the very tumult of war and the clang of battle his kindly, sympathetic nature na-ture was constantly manifest in hi tireless efforts to relieve the suft'er-lugs suft'er-lugs of the men on the march, In tented tent-ed field, on bloody battle ground or in hospitals. This sympathetic characteristic charac-teristic of his nature was so stroug &nd so marked as to even meet with strong oposltlon at times from members mem-bers of his cabinet and others, on the ground that it tended to destroy dis c'.pHne in the army. From this characteristic char-acteristic he has been called "Tho Man of Mercy." The Dawn of Peace. Through four long and weary years of frightful carnage, while the soldiers sol-diers of the Union in hundreds ot tented fields were singing: "Many are the hearts that are weary tonight, .Waiting for the war to cease; Many are tho friends now looking for the light, The glorious dawn of peace." this great man labored unceasingly and courageously to preserve the Mo of the nation; that liberty might not perish. And now Lee has surrendered to the "Silent Commander" at Appomattox; Appomat-tox; the nation has been saved; the tramp, tramp( tramp of the battle-scarred battle-scarred but victorious hosts returning return-ing to their homes to again engage in the peaceful avocations of life, rebound re-bound through the streets of the capital capi-tal city; the "glorious dawn of peace" is shedding its effulgent rays oer an inseparable Union; the man ot war ha6 become again the man ot peace; there is rejoicing throughout thA nation." Peans of praise arise to Almighty God. for the return or. peace. But what a change is soon to come! First of Our Martyred Presidents. On the evening ot April 15, 1865. the president, accompanied by Mrs. Lincoln, Lin-coln, upon Invitation, enters a box at Ford's Theater in the national capital. Fuddenly during the performance, ii shot rings out and the great Lincoln falls a martyr to duty and a victim to the assassin's bullet. The nattoa |