The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-13
1.-THE HEART OF LlNCOLN".
Zine Tribute Of Judge Ell Torrance De
= Iyered at Denver. d.

So
Judge Ell Torrance, x-commander-in in
chief of the Grand Army Of the Republic,
before the Loyal Legion Of Denver, Col,
last evening, delivered all Grafton on The
Heart Of Lincoln Referring to the found
ing of the Loyal Legion upon the day OF
Lnccln's death, and to the fact that six
members of the order had been presidents
Of the United States, he spoke of Lincoln $
martyrdonl in these words:
ct is no mean privilege, my fellow c1tl-
zens to live in a martyr AEGEAN age when
men blush to profit at their country,s
cost-an age when self is forgotten and
patriots mourn that they can die but once
for their country. --. 1t is the age Of true
glory and highest achievement and a.
country's progress can always pest pc
measured by it's sacrifices and It's heroes
lost
|'History carries a short roll Of inlmor-
tails but as long as the republic endues,
the wondrous story of him whose memory
We lovingly commemorate this evening"
will be told by elotslent lips and with
ever increasing power over the lives Of
men, * s The passing years
only disclose more beautiful spirit and
q more exalted character, and give deeper
significance to every act Of his life. =
"The door of opportunity, continued
the speaker. never stood wider open than
now No one denies that perils encon1-
and RESPONSIBILITIES meet us at every step.
| that problems numerous and perple1ing
daily confront us, but these are only the
| retiI.ue and attendants of progress and il
I rightly used become ministers to, a higher
1 national life s. Faith, colt'-
age and self-sacrifice constitute the trim"
Eity of virtues that make people great.
1 Judge Torrance's Grafton was 1llun11nat
| ed by telling anecdotes of the great presl-
| dent Lincoln's visit to New Orleans as
a bow of 20, his sight of the slave mart
i and his declara tion '1f l ever get
chance to hit that thing, I will hit j
lard'' as related by the speaker served
to deepen ones conviction in the pro
! phetic Lncoln's outburst was the HASH
ing out Of his kindness of heart.
4 Lincolns fatherly heart was shown by
the trust the soldiers of the Union army
had in him. He was the one man II
; whom they could always trust and the
!. one man to whom they could always ap
peal with confidence when every othel
}, hope had fled.
That Lincoln had a devout heart wa
shown by his words to his neighbors a
= he left his old home for Washington Il
assume the presidency: go to
greater task than that assigned to Wash
ington and unless the God that helpe'
him helps me, shall fail. put gn1ded an,
sustained by him I shall not fail. sha
succeed
Ills one. supreme passion was the pres
ervation Gof the union. The union Wit
or without slavery, but always the union
The lives Of more than half a million me
were required to save the union and
:. last to make the union forever sure
$ lsealed it with his own blood. He believe
!. in the perpetuity of the republic. III
7 great heart never expressed q more sub
3 lime faith in that perpetuity or uttere
2 a. grander gprophesy than When standln
!, under the impenetrable clouds of impend
t ing war he assured his countrymen thu
g the time would come when the mystl
e cords of memory stretching from ever
II battlefield and patriot grave to every llN
n ing heart and hearthstone all over tn
It broad land would yet swell the chorus (
the union when touched again. as the
4 surely would be, by the better angels
our natures
IS Closing, Judge Torrance paid this fu
y Their tribute to Lincoln: TN sinplici1
'e1 of faith and strength Of character
s. honesty Of purpose and self-surrender
N duty lie is the highest product of Amer
= can civilizations.