Show SAYINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN our assistant editor has requested space in this column to tell you about the boy scouts and we know of no better pro pre word than to include some of the fine utterances of our immortal president abraham lincoln whose birthday we celebrate next monday his life from boyhood to the end of his career may well serve as example to our youth of today among outstanding remarks we find the following 1 I have so many evidences of his gods direction so many anany instances where I 1 have been controlled by some other power than my own will that I 1 cannot doubt that this power comes from above I 1 am confident that when aen the almighty wants me to do or not to do a par particular ticul ar thing he finds a way of letting me know no men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty 1 I feel that I 1 cannot succeed without the divine blessing and on the almighty I 1 place my reliance for support die when we may I 1 want it said of me by those who know me best that I 1 always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I 1 thought a flower would grow |