Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-02

4 Co, are issuing series of volumes neatly
bound anl or convenient size, the lives of
American statesmen, John n Morse editor.
The latest issue of this series IL abraham
Lincoln" Tile rugged face " this wonder,
~ man looks out from the froRtlsplrcc aud
the seriousness OF 1t pOrtrays, MS do all Lin
eOll's portraits. the cGrncstress OF the man.
II II gratifying to hnd ia prfusug these
pages that there IL no attempt to conceal
The real facts, ike n true hlOgrupher MIR.
Morse seems TO approach his task with
rev, renee for the stern adherence TO truth
which marked this great man Like. Crom.
mover summed the truth, and while he WAS
properly rctlCcnt about Ills personal Affairs
he never attempted to oonceiS the fact that
his early days were In the hur5 lines Of
commonplace poverty.
The history Of l.lIcoln's career has been
made familiar, hut n has been reserved TO
Mr. Morse in two small volumes 10 he his
real blogrnphcr The study OF this life IL
valuable, II ~ encouraging to youth for Il
shows that with the Will to do ana the
cnsrsy To pursue there Is no position In
this country, however Liyh. II which a boy
may not hope to attain, As a contibuilOn
10 history the book Is Of value, MS in the
mnin II ls accurate; one sentence ought TO
he cxpungrd, It X neither worthy the dig
nifty Of a historian, nor " Jefferson Davis
denial under his own signature counts for
any ihlag is It true, In writing of the sur
render at ApnnattoS, April 20. 1864 MIR.
Morse SAYS; Jefferson Davis also arranged
for himself the most clrectual OF nmncsilcs
10y making himself Ridiculous; for though
-
lshmcnt for this drthIouod ruler they rec.
oglllzcd that This became impossible after
he had put himself IN petticoais"
lie also allows feeling To bias Judgment
In saying that Mrs. Sutratt met the punish.
meat sht deserved, when The courts after.
wards cleared her sou OF completely In the
murder Of the president, To which she could
not according to this decision, have been
accessory.
"rhc Divinity Of Jesus Christ" is a vol.
nmc made up " papers which appeared In
the Andoyer Review MS editorial cOutrlhu.
tons from professors IN Audover. The I'm.
purtauce OF the subject treated caunot he
oyerestimatcd for on faith ia Chrlst's
divinity hinges the Christian system This
Is an era In the church when lucstlnnlurs
VIII not be hHslcd and when everyone who
Ia honest with himself desires settled and
satisfactory conviction respecting religious
agv the necessity OF ISinvestigatiOn aud re-
statement is apparent.
The arguments In support OF the truth OF
the doctrine VI Christ's tNu fold nature nFe
deluced from the teachings ~ the primitive
church the sclf-confclOusness " Jesus the
teaching and practices " the early Church
during tho first three centuries the reason
nhleness Of faith which holds that Jesus
was revelation of God, the father and the
fedecner " tho race. That for a work "
necessity divine, a divine person was
nreded The concluding chapters treat ~
me diNine-hmnau possibility, the self-reVe-
mtion " God ia Jesus Christ aud the salts.
faction " humanity IN the Savior provided
are especially convincing,
IL Is book for Christians 10 read with