The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-02-17

ton is to know the age ana the
thought of that period. In the
right view of life there is no true
greatness aside from moral great
ness, and the verdict of history
verifies this. A man may be a
great leader of armies or great
financier without being great
man. Washington was greater
man than an ambitious Caesar or a
self-centred and INSCRIPTIONS Ma
poeon; the nation itself stands as
monument to Washington.
In broad way some would de-
fine a really great man in past his
tory as one who is now seen to
have made great and lasting inn
preston upon the age in which he
lived.
The world will never grow weary
nor cease to love the character OF
Abraham Lincoln, A man called
of God to great work as really as
Matthew was called to his life
work, from the toll-booths by the
sea of Galilee. He was a product
of the American soil. No imported
blood ran in his veins. He was. of
humble origin, and the typical
American; of robust constitution
and man of great brain and he
also had that breadth of sympathy
and delicacy of feeling which kept.
him in touch with life. He was a
devout man, who believed in d
God and in prayer-a lover of his
race.
He came to view in stormy times
and acted his part when great men
were in public life. His RESPONSE
bility was such as few men in the
world ever entered upon, and no
man was more mindful of that fact
He was fifty years in getting ready
for his great life work. Then he
did that disappointed work within
a space of four years and
left the world without warning:
like the passing of a prophet.
To the thought of the world his
fame eliminated in the Emancipa-
ton proclamation. This act met
the approval of mankind as great
and just act. The sentiment of the
world was with him in this and
against human slavery. For this
act alone his name will endure; it
cannot be erased from the page of
history more than starry ConStel-
latiOn can be erased from the page
of the heavens by human hand,
because his name stands out before
the world symbolizinga great and
imperishable idea. He was to his
time what Thomas Chalmers was
to the great new movement of his
time in Scotland. A mind of such
capacity as to abSorbe completely
into himself the universal Senti-
ment of his time and the right SEN
timent all time and to stand for it
in his own personality, symbolic
ally and for ever. There it. shines
in unequal grandure all alone; it
needs do explanation, the one pain
unadorned wofd--Lincoln!
There is one thing greater than
money, greater than any tangible
thing, greater than reason, greater
than time, greater than all things
aed that is the human heart. He
touched the heart of man and his
name and character is enshrined
in immortal sentiment-Washing-
ton-Lincolr, how naturally we
link them together. = =
u The work of Lincoln
is not yet completed in his relation
to the colored race. The Emanci-
patton proclamation add the~legis-
lation in accord with it gave the
ballot to the black man but did not
emancipate him by that act from
ignorance and degradation. He
could not be removed from. the
country, the only hope lies in his
betterment and his being made
able to take care of himself through
a knowledge of the industrial arts,
and helping him to just self re-
spect in the ability to requirement
of property, and underlying all in
his intellectual and spiritual eman-
cipation through a Christian. edu-
cation. ~a'
EVENING SERVICES. ...ss
The program for the evening service
was arranged with due reference to the
Lihtoln Memorial day, with direct
bearing upon the valuable work of
the American Missionary Association
in its dual branches of work among