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Show PASTORS TAKE LINCOLN'S LIFE AS THEIR TEXT Chicago, Feb. 8. On tho eve of the week's celebration of the Lincoln centennial cen-tennial in Chicago, pastors took the life of the great emancipator as their themeB. "Moses-as tho liberators of the He-brow He-brow people and Lincoln as the liberator liber-ator of the colored race had many things in common," said Kev. H. O. Hofstead, "and if we could summon the spirits of both of them, as Saul 1b reported to have summoned the spirit spir-it of Samuel by means of the witch of Endor, wo could strike a parallel in their lives." "Lincoln has justly earned a nation's devotion unequalled in the world's history'," his-tory'," said Dr. N. 1. Rnblnkam. "The nation is today fulfilling his desire: T want It said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.' " "Lincoln was not the product of a single year, of a single life, or ol a single vine," declared Father P. J. O'Callaghan, "he was the product i of mankind and mankind with the virtues of the Christian era were the product of Jesus Christ; they were from the vine and out of the vine they have drawn their sap and their nourishment." |