Tributes to Abraham Lincoln . MEMORIAL address wasdelivered by the S. Parkes Cadmanin Central Congrega-tional Church on Fridayevening, under the aus-pices of the memorial and executivecommittee of the Grand Army of theRepublic, it being given for the benefitof the widows and orphans of CivilWar Veterans andforneedy day alsomarked the fifty-second anniversaryof the Gettysburgaddress by Lin-coln, which announcedas his text, ofwhich he said itsdignity, simplicityand completenesswill preserve it forall time to Cadmans ad-dress follows: The man who. /.
Tributes to Abraham Lincoln . MEMORIAL address wasdelivered by the S. Parkes Cadmanin Central Congrega-tional Church on Fridayevening, under the aus-pices of the memorial and executivecommittee of the Grand Army of theRepublic, it being given for the benefitof the widows and orphans of CivilWar Veterans andforneedy day alsomarked the fifty-second anniversaryof the Gettysburgaddress by Lin-coln, which announcedas his text, ofwhich he said itsdignity, simplicityand completenesswill preserve it forall time to Cadmans ad-dress follows: The man who. /. CflOttflH. uttered these words » was a prooL or Carlyles declaration that personalityrather than ideas is the source of thehighest welfare. The merest glanceat Lincolns life and work is con-vincing Hiat such a nature as his doesmore for the advancement ofrighteous causes than abstract theo-ries or mechanical formulae can ac-complish. Yet the difficulty of in-terpreting him is well-nigh insuper-able. There is a mystery of geniusas well as a mystery of goodness, andLincoln shared in both. The untu-tored rustic whose shaggy appear-ance had hardly been banished whenhe passed out of deepest obscurityinto the pitiless blaze of public stationaand unequaled authority, possessed a-significance which battles the mostassiduous research. Hence no capitalbiography of him has been written,and he may have to wait for centu-ries to come before it will ingenuity has displayed to alimited degree the motions of his in-tellect, and the manifestations of hisbenevolent instintributestoabraha00cadm
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