The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-07-20
Literary Notes.

THE Spirit of Manual Training" viii
be set forth by Prof, c. III. Henderson, of
Philadelphia, In an article which Is to
open in the August Popular Science
Monthly. Prof. Henderson says that the
ideal school will aim to develop men, not
to develop fine articles of wood or iron, or
to cram heads with information, and that
the name manual training school" does
not rightly describe an institution design
ed to train the whole boy"
The forthcoming august number of
the Century will contain chapter on Lin
coin and the Churches" In the Lincoln
History, by Messrs. Hay and Nicolay, from
which the following Is an extract:
He was a man OF profound and intense
religious feeling. We have no purpose of
attempting to formulate his creed We
| question if he himself ever did so. There
have been swift witnesses who, judg-
Ing from expressions uttered in his
callow youth, have called him an ATHEIST,
and others who with the most laudable in
tentions, have remembered improbable
conversations which they bring forward to
prove at once his orthodoxy and their own
intimacy with him. But leaving aside these
apocryphal evidences, We have only to
look at his authentic public and private
utterances to see how deep and strong In
all the latter part of his life was the cur
rent of his religious thought and emotion.
He continually invited and appreciated, at
their highest value, the prayers of good
people. The pressure of the tremendous
problems by which he was surrounded
the awful moral significance of the conflict
In which he was the chief combatant; the
overwhelming sense Of personal RESPONSE
billty, which never left him for an hour
all contributed to produce, In tempera-
ment naturally serious and predisposed to
spiritual view of life ana conduct, sense
of reverent acceptance of the guidance OF
a Superior Power. From that morning
when, standing amid the falling snow
flakes on the railway car at Springfield b,
asked the prayers of his neighbors In thos
, touching phrases whose echo rose tina
night In invocations from thousands o
family affairs, to that memorable hour whel
; on the steps of the Capitol he humblet
himself before his Creator In the sublim,
| words of the second inaugural, there is no
an expression known to have come fror
his lips or his pen but proves that he hel(
himself answerable In every act of his ca
D reer to more august tribunal than any OF
earth. The fact that he was not commu
meant of any church, and that he was sing
ularly reserved In regard to his persona
religious life, gives only the greater fore
to these striking proofs of his profoun
reverence and faith.
Theodore Child will follow his article OF
Palatial Petersburg" In the July Mum
Der of Halper'S Magazine, with one o;
"The Kremlin and Russian Art" In tn
! August Number. The latter will be evel
more lavishly illustrated than the former
Mr.. Child will analyzs into Its constituent
elements Muscovite art as exemplitied Il
the architecture and the treasures of tn
palaces and churches of the Kremlin, ant
Will exhibit the truth of the conclusion
that there is such thing as an origins
and national art In Russia-an idea 9
which Western critics scoffed not man
years since.