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Departures on the Victoria Luise, 
which left her pier in New York. 
last Wednesday for a cruise to the 
‘Tropics, Panama and _ Venezuela, 
were Mr. and Mrs. J. Murray Kay, 
dx., whose wedding took place. in 
the Church of Our Saviour, Long- 
wood, recently. Mrs. Kay, who was 
Anna Wilder Pollard, of Brookline 
and East. Gloucester, had a number 
of. intimates at the pier to bid her 
bon voyage. She. presented’ a most: 
attractive appearance in brown 
cloth and velvet, with severe hat to 
correspond. The young people are 
intending to be absent a month, and 
_to arrive at their attractive new 
home on Addington road in Brook- 
line. early in March. 
Thursday evening Archer Gibson, 
the - distinguished organist and 
composer, was heard in a recital at 
the Ehot church, Newton. Mr. Gib- 
son is a summer resident on _ the 
North Shore through his unique 
position, of private organist to 
Henry ©. Frick. He likewise serves 
in that capacity in the homes of 
Charles M. Sehw ab, Wm, D. Sloane, 
_J. Horace Harding and George A. 
Joslyn. He has also played for 
Com.» Frederick G. Bourne, who 
owns the largest home organ in ex- 
qactenee a3, Lowss C. .Tiffany,.uWwe R. 
Vanderbilt, Jr., Ernesto Fabbri, 
Henry Payne: Whitney and other 
-famous patrons of the modern or- 
gan. Mr. Gibson’s art .is great. 
Iie is considered by all a genius and 
is intensely dev oted to his art.. -In 
fact he is. considered one of the 
most brilliant.and individual organ- 
ists in the country... Mr. Gibson is 
axnative of Baltimore. Since 1900, 
--he has resided in New York. He 
. holds the degree F. A. G. O., the 
highest ‘‘ examination’’ organist 
honor obtainable in America. 
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The Moral Grandeur of Abraham Lincoln 
(Extract from Sermon by Rev. A.G. Warner of the First Baptist Church, Manchester) 
HE finest product of any na- 
tion is her men.’ When we 
are asked what has’: our 
country done to claim atten- 
tion we do not speak of her. prod- 
ucts—agricultural or mineral, the 
extent of her varied manufacturing 
industries, or her marvelous achieve- 
ment in engineering—we show what 
our nation is doing for her youth 
in schools and colleges, what she is 
doing for the million strangers she 
welcomes through her hospitable 
doors; what she is accomplishing 
in the fight against ignorance, in- 
justices, and poverty; how she is 
learning that that nation is great 
which exists to help other nations, 
and has consequently taken.the lead 
in the present movement for world 
unity and universal peace; . but 
most of all, we point to the type of 
men we have produced. 
Proudly we point to the distin- 
guished and honored men who have 
been the builders of our © nation. 
‘“These,’’ we say, ‘‘are the finest 
products of America.’’ »When~ a 
country can produce a. Washington 
or a Lincoln, it need never be 
ashamed of its place among the na- 
tions—the first, high-minded, clear- 
visioned, with a fixed and ‘immov- 
able sense of duty, a lover of peace 
yet forced into the exegencies of 
war; the second, a man of ‘such 
broad sympathy that nothing hu- 
man was foreign to him, pursuing a 
calm and quiet way through such 
national agonies as few nations 
have ever known, a man American 
to the core, simple, childlike, be- 
loved of all and yet wise, sagacious 
and great incapacity of leadership 
in great crises. To the average 
American boy Abraham Lincoln 
seems near because of his self 
wrought way through obstacles to 
success. To the mass of the people 
it is Lincoln’s great humanity more 
than his superb leadership of the 
nation through the great crisis that 
makes him greatly esteemed. He is 
one of the few-great men who are 
loved as well as admired. 
There is always a heart element 
in our thought of Abraham Lincoln. 
Tle was compacted of humanity. 
Tlis sympathies went out to all. 
They could take in everybody, from 
the negro slave woman to the per- 
plexed senator. He seemed to un. 
power. 
derstand all trouble. No American 
has lived who has manifested such 
unfailing understanding of our hu- 
man nature. His fund of stories 
was inexhaustable. Yet all who 
are acquainted with them will re- 
call that they inevitably dealt with 
human frailties or aspirations. His 
wit and humor was as a bubbling 
spring and always running over, 
yet it was always tender and often 
bordered so close to pathos that lis- 
teners hardly knew whether to 
laugh or ery. He received all who 
came. He never turned away 
harshly anyone, except rascals. 
During the great war he kept in 
touch with innumerable men on the 
field of battle and was always ready 
to receive a private as well as a 
general. Everyone knows the bur- 
den of sorrow he bore on his heart 
during the dark days of the nation. 
He was brave but in his aspect was 
the mark of a great sorrow—sor- 
row for South as well: as North. 
The nation will always love him be- 
cause of this great pene 
Wordsworth’s line to Milton i 
much truer of Lincoln: ‘‘Thy heart 
the lowliest duties on herself . eh 
lay.”’ 
The world always admires power. 
It admires it so much that it has not 
always qualified its admiration ac- 
cording to the use made of. this 
It has admired the man. of 
power even when he has used it to 
maim and slay and wreak devasta- 
tion and play the tyrant over men. 
Napoleon has been the one hero of 
the nineteenth century. Thirty 
years ago he always stood at the 
head of the list when France voted 
for her greatest man. In 1908 the 
vote in France found Napoleon 
seventh and Pasteur first. The Lin- 
ecoln type of character is the type 
most honored by men today and is 
the type most needed in our life to- 
day. Abraham LIincoln’s_ great 
powers were consecrated to the wel- 
fare of humanity. He was one of 
the most unselfish men that ever 
lived. He cared nothing for money. 
He never worried about making it. 
If it came it was shared with every- 
body else. All through his life his 
great power was always being put 
forth in beneficence; and unstint- 
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