In the boyhood of Lincoln; a tale of the Tunker schoolmaster and the times of Black Hawk . gainly pupil of that forest school ? THE EXAMINATION AT CRAWFORDS SCHOOL. 99 One day there came to Washington a present to the Liber-ator of the American Republic. It looked as follows, and borethe following inscription: * To Abraham Lincoln, President, for the second time, of the AmericanRepiiblic, citizens of Rome present this stone, from the wall of ServiusTullius, by which the memory of each of those brave assertors of libertymay be associated. Anno 1865. It is said that the modest President shrank f
In the boyhood of Lincoln; a tale of the Tunker schoolmaster and the times of Black Hawk . gainly pupil of that forest school ? THE EXAMINATION AT CRAWFORDS SCHOOL. 99 One day there came to Washington a present to the Liber-ator of the American Republic. It looked as follows, and borethe following inscription: * To Abraham Lincoln, President, for the second time, of the AmericanRepiiblic, citizens of Rome present this stone, from the wall of ServiusTullius, by which the memory of each of those brave assertors of libertymay be associated. Anno 1865. It is said that the modest President shrank from receivingsuch a compliment as that. It was too much. He hid away thestone in a storeroom of the capital, in the basement of the WhiteHouse. It now constitutes a part of his monument, being oneof the most impressive relics in the Memorial Hall of thatstructure. It is twenty-four hundred years old, and it trav-eled across the world to the prairies of Illinois, a tribute fromthe first advocate of the rights of the people to the latest de-fender of all that is sacred to the human CHAPTER VIII. THE PARABLE PREACHES IN THE WILDERNESS. HE house in which youug Abraham Lincolnattended church was simple and curious, aswere the old forest Baptist preachers who con-ducted the services there. It was called simplythe meeting-house. It stood in the timber,whose columns and aisles opened around it like a vast cathedral,where the rocks were altars and the birds were choirs. It wasbuilt of rude logs, and had hard benches, but the plain peoplehad done more skillful work on this forest sanctuary than onthe school-house. The log meeting-house stood near the logschool-house, and both revealed the heart of the people whobuilt them. It was the Prussian school-master, trained in themoral education of Pestalozzi, that made the German army vic-torious over France in the late war. And it was the NewEngland school-master that built the great West, and madePlymouth Rock the crown-stone of our own
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