. : [booklet]. not choose but trustIn that sure-footed minds unfaltering skill And supple-tempered willThat bent like perfect steel to spring again andthrust. He knew to bide his time,And can his fame abide,Still patient in his simple faith sublime,Till the wise years captains with their guns and drums,Disturb our judgment for the hour,But, at last, silence comes ;These all are gone, and standing like a tower,Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing , patient, dreading praise, not blame,New birth of our new soil, the first America
. : [booklet]. not choose but trustIn that sure-footed minds unfaltering skill And supple-tempered willThat bent like perfect steel to spring again andthrust. He knew to bide his time,And can his fame abide,Still patient in his simple faith sublime,Till the wise years captains with their guns and drums,Disturb our judgment for the hour,But, at last, silence comes ;These all are gone, and standing like a tower,Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing , patient, dreading praise, not blame,New birth of our new soil, the first American. 13 Abraham Lincoln was a lover, an ex-ponent of the love that stronger is thanhate—a modern Ben Adhem, who lovedhis fellowmen and his God; whose loveof God was oftenest shown in his lovefor all Gods children everywhere. A good way to observe IndependenceDay is to thank God for Abraham Lincoln,a man who lived years in advance of histime, a man of the people, who, in themidst of unique difficulties and misunder-. LIFE MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Made in Chicago in 1862 by Leonard W. Volk. Engraved on wood by Thomas Johnson. From Century Magazine, February 1909 standings, guided our Nation through thefiercest Civil War, treating all issueswith a fairness and all men with a kind-ness that it has taken his countrymentwo generations of peace to let every American thank God forhim to-day, and if he values his countryand his blessings, let him see that someof those who are coming after us aretaught to love Lincoln, to revere hisname and to follow his great example. Lincolns supremacy in Americanhearts is due to many causes : We lovehim for his victory over poverty andappalling obstacles; for his fidelity toduty ; for his loyalty to the right; for hisgreat unselfishness ; for his patience andself-control; for his wisdom and fair-ness ; for his tenderness and forgive-ness ; for his courage and sincerity; forhis humor and humanity ; for his love ofGod and man and country; in s
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