. The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City : a souvenir of the dinner at the Carteret Club commemorating the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln . Rev. John Milton Holmes. Lincoln Reading the Emancipation Proclamation to His Cabinet(The original of this picture hung in the Tabernacle for many years) to Jersey City. He preached a sermon the Sunday night after theBaltimore affair that stirred the town to its depths, and it was giventhe very unusual attention of being published in full in the Courierand Advertiser at the request of hearers who were ele
. The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City : a souvenir of the dinner at the Carteret Club commemorating the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln . Rev. John Milton Holmes. Lincoln Reading the Emancipation Proclamation to His Cabinet(The original of this picture hung in the Tabernacle for many years) to Jersey City. He preached a sermon the Sunday night after theBaltimore affair that stirred the town to its depths, and it was giventhe very unusual attention of being published in full in the Courierand Advertiser at the request of hearers who were electrified anddelighted by its noble sentiments and splendid delivery. It is beautifulreading to-day, and the magnificent work done by this splendid soldierof the Cross in Jersey City in the few years of his intensive devotionshould be known and acclaimed by every school child. With great emphasis, therefore, I beg to present the name ofJohn Milton Holmes as one who helped prodigiously to make theLincoln Association possible. We cannot read the newspapers, bothkinds, if you please, without being gripped by the sublimity of hisdevotion to the Lincoln ideal; and by the time that the Tabernacle,with a flag pole fo
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