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Moral Grandeur of Lincoln 
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edly. He hated war because it was 
destructive and gave pain, whereas 
he was of the tenderest heart and 
would only heal and bless. Even- 
tually he gave his life for the na- 
tion, as did that Greater One who, 
using his power for blessing, gave 
his life for the world. Our nation 
is the lasting testimony to his gen- 
ius. He won his own way from the 
log cabin to the White House; he 
piloted a nation through such dark- 
ness and chaos as the world has sel- 
dom seen; he laid the foundations 
*of a new nation, indivisable, har- 
monious, great in its achievement— 
glorious in its. possibility. Great 
was the sincerity of the man, Al- 
ways and everywhere he rang true 
and all men trusted in him. No low 
motives or inducements could move 
him from what seemed his right 
way. It was the same through the 
changing years. His historian tells 
us that no bribes were ever offered 
him. He likewise offered no insults 
to other men. He was so sincere 
that he trusted all other men. 
Though frequently deceived, yet he 
trusted. The epithet ‘‘honest Abe”’ 
is really a far grander title than 
‘‘His Execellency’’ for behind hes 
the testimony of a nation to char- 
acter rather than station. The first 
must always be won, the second 
may be given. 
There was a rare nobility of spirit 
in Mr. Lincoln which absorbed into 
his character the people’s virtues 
while it remained untarnished by 
the people’s vices. The people 
therefore called for his promotion 
through one grade of service faith- 
fully rendered to another until the 
highest office in the gift of an anx- 
lous, distracted nation on _ the 
threshold of Civil War was ¢on- 
ferred upon him. How patiently he 
bore all things, how accurately he 
gauged the ebb and flow of thought 
and act against the great curse of 
slavery. Finally he set the bond- 
men free and thus obliterated the 
direful mark which so long had 
divided our fair house of govern- 
ment against itself. <A grateful na- 
tion must always feel that it was 
the gracious act of God, our fa- 
ther’s God. that gave us Abraham 
Lincoln, the statesman and the lib- 
erator, the patient chieftain and the 
noble martyr whom all future ages 
will revere and love. Our country 
has produced several men whom we 
all think of as distinctively Ameri- 
ean, but Abraham Lincoln still re- 
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James Russell Lowell saw _ this 
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Disturb our judgment for the hour, 
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These all are gone, and, 
like a tower 
Our children shall behold his fame. 
The kindly-earnest, brave, forseeing 
man, 
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise 
not blame, 
The birth of our new soil the first 
American.”’ 
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