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Show LINCOLN, MAN OF MEN, AND MAN OF GOD It is soon Abraham Lincoln's birthday which should be celebrated by all, not only by a party. He was great enough to rise above every other living statesman and tender and human enough to talk kindly to a little lost child and lead I it gently home while the guns were firing on Fort Sumpter. Once he came upon a one-armed lad who was being made fun of and mistreated by school boys because of his stove-polished stove-polished shoes. He made enquiry and found the lad to be the son of a widowed mother struggling to keep him and other children by doing washings. He fitted him out with new shoes, new suit and hat and had his wife fill the poverty-stricken home with more clothes and a supply of groceries: Never too busy to be kind. .... ... |