The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-24

stand by me 1 would stand by Him.
And He did and / will. and from that
hour said the immortal Lincoln. I had
no fear about Gettysburg
General Rushing. who tells the fore
going, says also. that the president
said these things very deliberately and
touchingly, as IL he believed thorough
ly In them. General Sickles gave the
same incident in an after dinner ad-
ureSs In New York a few years since.
And this prayerful spirit was habitual
with the president. In accepting the
nomination, he implored the assistance
or Divine Providence in his election
ne saw the Providence of Cod in his
farewell at Springfield he said that he
could not succeed without the same Di-
vine blessing, which sustained Wash
ington, and that on the same Almighty
Being he placed his reliance for sup
port; and a few days before his death
In his last public address, the first
words were recognition of Him,
from whom all blessings fiow.'
We might speak further OF Mr.. Lin
COINS faith in the common people and
his confidence in the glorious destiny
OF his country. 1t would be a pleasant
task to illustrate his singular self con-
troll and touching sympathy with mis-
fortune and suffering of every form
l believe that God worked through
him. His emancipation proclamation
was worthy of the Prophet of Maya
reth. He was a man of the people and
they loved him. He was endeared to
the soldiers by innumerable acts of
Kindness and love. His last speech was
one OF thanksgiving. of care for the
captured. OF justice to all. II is hard
Tor US. who were not part of that crisis.
TO realize how the people loved him.
when he fell His lowly birth and ear
IL no 1ctxt H.
guise, for they always kept him near
the people. Even after he had been
elected to the highest Office in the ma
ton, he could feel the mighty throb of
the common peoples heart, and next
TO the voice from on high, this was
the monitor he followed
Washington lived for country, not
for self; by prayer at Valley Forge, he
drew his nation from the abyss of ruin:
Lincoln died martyr death for free
dom, and was nerved for his tremen-
dous task with strength from above:
snail not every patriot to-day put him.
self in touch with these sublime spirits
and enshrine in his heart the memory
OF men who loved their country in
splendid devotion to self-forgetful and
undying service for it's welfare? These
very names should not only stir every
patriots soul. but enlist the admiratio
and love of every school boy in this
broad land. The mighty yield of our
fertile valleys and plains, the minerals
or a thousand mines, the commerce of
our broad lakes and deep flowing riv-
ers are not comparable with the les
sons which we learn and the mighty
Impulses we unconsciously receive
from the lives Of such men as the two
greatest heroes of our nation"
In the evening the speaker drew les
sons from the character and life of
George washington. This grand career
was also discussed more especially
from a moral and religious standpoint.
The boy was traced from his childhood
home through the various positions of
trust and honor which he held at dir
ferent times, until he was at last chos-
en- the first ruler of a new nation. AS
the salient points of his life were pre-
scented, Washington's steadfast devo-
ton to religious principles were made
prominent. History presents him as a
man who held firmly TO the integrity
or the Bible, the word Of God. as an
active member of the Christian church.
as an earnest believer in Jesus Christ.
the savior or the world, and in God.
whose Providence is over all He aIso
Remembered the Sabbath day to keep
1t holy" was a mighty man of PRAYER
In the darkest days of the long war
and endeavored always to practice the
religious principles he professed in
daily life.
Happy the people. who in the two
great crises were guided by two such
men, distinguished above all by faith
In man and confidence in God. Happy
are we, whose lot has been cast in n
land whose history cannot be written
unless there is placed at the very ton
OF long roll of honor the name of
the founder, and the
same of Lincoln, the liberator of his