Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-13
Life and Labors OF the Immortal
President Theme OF Local
Preachers.
REV. {. ]. GOSHEN'S ADDRESS
Pastors at Unity Hall and First Meth.
Odist Church Also Spoke Along
The Same Lines

In the hearts Of the people The thought
OF the speaker was that Llncoln's ca
reer was marked out by one greater
than he, I'm other words, that he had
been sent forth by the Almighty In the
especial cause OF slavery. Born into
the world when that Vexed question was
at lis height It had passed away ere yet
his light went out. Mr. Goshen re-
counted epochs in American history
from tho time OF the landing OF the
Pilgrims down to the time when the
young Kentucklan began the fight Of
life, with adversely as his teacher,
poverty his text book" Although the
mind OF Lincoln was great, 1t was not
the brain alone that was the reason OF
his success-the secret Of IT all was the
fact that he had kept close TO God ana
to the people,
Lincoln, Mr.. Goshen said had deliv-
cred one Of the three great oratons OF
American history-his address AT Get
tysburg The other two were Wendell
Phillips grafton AZ Faneuil hall, and
Patrick Henrys speech at Williams
burg; and, said the speaker, there was
no fourth
When an the nations Of the earth had
crowned their greatest men--Greace
her sculptors and writer's, Rome her
Caesars, England her Gladstones and
America her Washington her Hancock
and her Franklln--thore would be one
LETT FOR the people to crown-Abraham
Lincoln.
FIRST METHODIST.
At the First Methodist church Rev.
BENJAMIN Young chose Tor his text
abraham Lincoln Study He
thought that the history OF our country
afforded no other chapter SO thrilling as
the closing years Of the life OF our first
martyrcd president. The history OF the
man teens with evidences Of the in
tensity Of his purposes. As student
and advocate of the law he was not
brilliant, he was not known TO be elo-
quent but he was seldom on the wrong
side OF any case Mr. Young thought
II not too much TO say that Abraham
Lincoln was raised up by Providence TO
play the chief part In one Of the great
eat dramas OF history. Until the close
Of time his memory viii last. and he
will be venerated for the nobeness and
grandeur of his life
AT UNITY HALL.
Rev. Frank Fay Eddy spoke on the
lie Of Lincoln yesterday at Unity hall,
Ninety-siS years ago In a humble cab
I'm amid the hills OF Kentucky was born
the boy who was destined to become a
great leader among men, Who cou'd
have dreamed of the great future that
was TO come TO the child Of Tom LIN
coin aud Nancy Hanks. The speaker
briefly sketched some incidents in the
early life of Lincoln, and passed on to
the thrilling events Of tho latter years
of his life--ycars OF grave responsible
tiles that crowded thick and fast upon
| him Following are some OF the speak
| er's conclusions In regard to the grent
| man:
Lincoln possessed one OF the great
| est intclleCts OF the modern era. Care
! less and slOyenly as regards external
| details, within his mind all was order
and precision. lie had that rare under
| standing that can be best described "a
| luminous. With the logic that went to
| the heart Of the question was the vision
| that saw all It's correlatlons. Among
! the men OF the modern era can think
| Of but few who appear TO me to he the
| equals OF Lincoln In mentality. In 1T
| erature there are Shakespeare and
| Goethe; I'm politics and practical affairs,
| Napoleon and Bismarck; in science,
| Herbert spencer.
But Lincoln wes more than the
man OF understanding He was the
| man OF practical power, able TO WELD
! all the tools that make a man effective
| among his fellows In his young man
| hood he used the AK with mighty sWeep
| and an the mastery OF ease In 'ater
| years, with the same power, the En"-
| llsh language, written and spoken. We
| can scarcely find a parallel I'm history
| OF "a man who spoke and wrote so et-
| iectively He made a nation think hig
thoughts through his speeches. his
| written addresses and letters. Linz
coins prose, formed upon the English
! Bible and Shakespeare, is wonderful
! for IT'S uoWer Of clear and lucid state
! ment. But II has more than the mower
| Of precision; 1t rs alive ana seems TO
| carry thrill Of passionate earnestncss
! coming warm from soul of lofty spir-
! ltuality
I'm the four years Of awful conflict
| Lincoln proved himself n man OF prac-
| teal power IN q thousand emergencies.
| First and fundamentally as sta tes-
| man who could understand and guide
! men lie could lead and use such men
! as Seward, Chase and stanton. lie IN
| tuitively understood tho course OF
| that strange blending aud focusing M
| minds we call public opinion. But the
| man Of power was mlny-sided As a
| diplomat, NJ a writer, rs an orator and
as q strategist he was equally ef-
! fectivc
add to this moral purpose and al
| trustlC idcallsm and you begin to
comprehend this great American. II
| Is this that places him IN a different
| category from Bismarck, above UNI
| scrupulousness all Europe feared with
cause, or Napoleon, who was undone I'm
| the yastness of his selfish egotlsm. To
| Lincoln power brought the sense Of
responsibility TO work for altruistic
| ends.
yet this is not all Of the man Linz
| coin. so strangely complex. There was
| the Lincoln OF practical shrewdness.
| with understandings plotted by humor;
| there was the Lincoln who at times ip
/ loneliness and despair was plunged
| into deepest melancholy; again we SEQ
| this same man transformed under the
| spell Of his own oratory, rising TO
| heights OF lofticst prophecy; or, il may
| be, we see him In the silent night
watches praying 20 his God for guild
| ance, The heights Of such Il life we
| may not measure with our understand
| ing nor have we any plummet with
| which TO sound It's abysmal pedths.
III words fail 10 express all | would
| say IN regard to this hero OF our ma
| tional life, / am comforted by the
| thought that the sentiments that anil
| mate me are likewise I'm your hearts.
| And although words and phrases are
| weak TO convey my fun meaning, yet
| we together, I'm token OF the uttered
| aud unuttered sentiments that move
| w, can I'm unison salute that great
| name, that respondent memory, of
| tho greatest Amercan-Llncoln, our
| hero
Neat sunday Mr.. Eddy VIII preach
| the second sermon IN the series Of,
| Washington; the study OF an IDEAL"
EAST SIDE BAPTIST.
AZ the East Side Baptist church Rev.