Show the old settler my dear san sai jua ners what I 1 have in mind might have been written with more propriety for the twelfth of february lut but this lr for me is not for one day only it is a cherished feature of my philosophy every day giving me comfort and hope there are men whose words are so full of love and truth that they carry with increasing soul and charm from one age to the next no mans words ever grew in magnitude like the words of jesus of nazareth but men become great in the degree to which they approach his standards I 1 have some cherished pictures of abraham lincoln and I 1 study them to discover what is he positive charm in that thin boniface bony face I 1 can not define it but it is there even as the gleam of a gem which grows brighter with contact I 1 study Lincol ns face and have ever in my mind the christ like words with wi th malice towards none with charity for all with firmness for the right as bcd gives us to see the right let us finish the work we are in to bind up the nations wounds to care for him who shall have borne the he battle and for his widow and orphans to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations this was the blessed I sentiment which a kind providence had supplied for the of the great united states if this sentiment dwelt in the hearts of all men the great millennium would be here and this was not something which lincoln had prepared to make a f favorable avo rable impression with his inaugural address but this was characteristic of the man this was the real lincoln who endured patiently and still loved the upstart generals who treated him as an inferior after he had appointed them this was the real lincoln whose great eyes filled with tears when he pardoned the condemned the lincoln who turned the struggling beetle from on its back that it might have a fair chance wih all other beetles this was the immortal lincoln who said 1 I do the very best I 1 know how the very best I 1 can and I 1 mean to keep doing so till the end if the end brings me out all right what is said against me wont amount to anything if the end brings me out wrong ten angels swearing I 1 was right would make no difference yours to perpetuate the doings of lincoln ALBERT R LYMAN |