The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-13
ORATORS
HONOR LINCOLN
Natal Day of the Great Commoner
Fittingly Observed.
STUDIES FROM HIS LIFE
VALUE OF HIS CAREER VIEWED
FROM AMERICAN PROGRESS.

Rev Elmer I. Goshen, pastor of the
First Congregational church, preached
10 an audience made up largely OF c..
"A r. veterans yesterday morning on
Abraham Lincoln. setting forth the
Characteristics which have endeared
him TO the hearts of the American peo-
pie. The setting, the song service and
the subject were distinctively patriotic,
The pulpit stand and organ being
draped with the Stars and Stripes.
while the choir selections were, in the
main, national anthems.
The impression left by Rev. Mr.. Gosh
ems address was that Lincoln had, dur
ing his entire lifetime, been close 20 one
mightier than all others. that his faith
and love OF principle had dominated
throughout his public career and had
dictated and carried to a successful is
sue his public acts. His work seemed
To have been a chosen one, the speaker
said. UsheTed into the world with the
birth of the great slavery question, his
passing and the passing of that great
question had come together.
Mr.. Goshen's text was taken largely
from the third and fourth verses of the
fourth chapter of Micah: And he
shall judge among many people, and
Tebuke strong nations afar off:
nation shall not lift up a sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war
any more. But they shall sit every man
under his vine and under his fig tree;
and none shall make them afraid, for
the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath
spoken it,
Mr.. Goshen reviewed briefly the
epOchs of American history, in the his
tory OF liberty's fight against monar-
chy; the landing of the Pilgrims in
1920; the Declaration of independence;
the surrender OF CORVALLIS eight years
later.
Passing through the years, he found
Abraham Lincoln. the mountain born
Kentucky boy; told of his struggles
for an education. Adversely" he said,
was his teacher, poverty his text
book"
Hopeful in Adversely.
Tracing Lincoln's career from a law
reading grocery clerk, then a lawyer
then a legislator and then to the high
est honor the people could confer OF
him, Mr. Goshen found evidences of his
answering devotion to principle and OF
his hope and faith even in the darkest
hours. This last he emphasized-Lin-
coins ability to be optimistic under the
most adverse circumstances
He found the man whom a national
storm Of criticism had failed to bend
praising God for the victory he had
given northern arms, and calling OF
the members of his executive cabinet
to do likewise. He found the fore
most men of the country giving way &c
grief and passion at the death and the
assassination CT the man who. thirty
years before, had been laughed at and
defeated for congressional honors.
Cause Of His Greatness.
The cause OF Lincoln's SUCCESS, the
speaker said. might not he attributed
wholly to a great mind. a brain OF won
derful CaDacity. for history had pro-
duced a Mirabeau. a Robespierre. 9
Talleyrand. each of whom had been Liz
coins equal in mere ability. But Lin
coin alone of these had kept close to
God and to the people.
Lincoln. Mr. Goshen said, had deliV-
cred one of the three great OratiOns Of
American history-his address at Get
tysburg. The other two were Wendell
Phillips Grafton at Faneuil hall, and
Patrick Henry's speech at Williams
burg; and, said the speaker, there was
no fourth
When all the nations of the earth had
crowned their greatest men-Greece
her sculptoTs and writer's, Rome hei
Caesars, England her Gladstones and
America her Washington, her Hancock
and her Franklin-there would be one
left for the people to crown-Abraham
Lincoln.
During the course of his address Mr.
Goshen read a letter written by Lin
coin to Miss Mary Owens. Sprlnghcid
Ill. May Z. 1881 1t was a love letter
and one which the minister thought
well worthy of study by tOday's young
er generation because of its dignity anC
T-aight fOrvVardn