Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-06
SAYS LINCOLN
HAS NO PEER
TRIBUTE TO MARTYR BY DR..
M'INTYRE
Asserts That "Honest Abe" Began
Lower and Climbed Higher Than
Any Man of Whom There Is
Record

Abraham Lincoln" was the topic of
a sermon-lecture last evening by Rev.
Robert Mcintyre at the First Metho-
dist church.
DR.. Mcintyre gave the facts he had
CLEANED during his three years pastor
ate in Charleston, ILL.,, the boyhood
home of the martyred president He
said in part
THE place held by the yellow dog
In the canine world is precisely the
same as the poor white people in the
south before the war. The real curse
of slavery fell on the poor white peo-
pie. Woe to the man who had but his
labor to sell in a land where bondage
made labor a disgrace. They were even
deSpised by the slaves. A people that
has given us Peter Cartwright and an
Andrew Jackson were caught between
the slave owners and serfs and ground
to powder. They went to the noun
tains and waited the time when a
change should come and the poor
whites might have a chance.
"One who sprang from this class suf-
fered most and incorporated in his ean
and angular personality the sorrows of
his people. That a poor boy should
climb to the heights of fame is not
new, but there is no parallel of Abra-
ham Lincon in this land or any other.
Lincoln began lower and climbed high
er than any man of whom there is
record. In the midst of superstition
and vulgarity, the boy grew up a sober,
pure man and at the age of 25 had
won the name of Honest Abe. He never
Wronged man or woman and was a
white soul in the jungle.
''Look at his beginning! A shack, no
windows or doors! A piece of creased
paper was used for the window and a
horse blanket was hung up for the
door. The floor was the brown earth
and the beds were hunks. In the sum-
mer he could see the stars on their
onward march and in the winter the
drifted snoWflakeS touched his brow.
When the fire leaped in the fireplace,
the one fine thing in the cabin the boy
read books and reread them. l want
you to see the real Lincoln. A very
few books, the Pilgrims Progress,
Robert Burns poems, Henry Clay's
Nights He wove those books into his
very nature so that Horace Greeley
said: L call Lincoln the best educated
man, not the best schooled but the
best educated Many a man is well
schooled, but has little education.
Every upheaval In the nation has
the three greatest men. Look at the
IeNOlullOH. 1dlTlch 11eHTy was lne
speaker who uttered the immortal
word that won from the crown the
thirteen colonies. To Jefferson belongs
the craftsmanship. He was the one
who wrote the deathless Declaration OF
independence. There is yet another
crown and that falls to the brow OF
George Washington. These three Vir-
ginians gathered the supreme forces
1t was Washington who made the new
world free.
The Civil War has its three crowns
to be distributed. 1 need not mention
Grant has won the unthallenged crown
of soldiershlp. His sword cut the can
Ger of secession from the fair body oi
| Columbia. The crown of craftsmanship
falls to the brow of the rail splitter oi
Illinois. Lincolns brain spun and his
hand wrote the articles of emancipa.
tion. Yet there Is another crown, thai
of the orator. Every speech produced
| by both sides Is dead and sealed il
deepest oblivion, save one, and that Ii
Lincoln's address at Gettysburg 1t Il
the grandest summary of republican,
ism by man. 1t is i'm the school books
of four nations and the school children
of England recite 1t.
I'm a struggle of giants. which the
world watches. there comes mar
from the woods and closes with on,
hand the crown of craftsmanship anC
with the other that of the orators
feat which Is unparalleled In history
| "Lincolns name Is continually grow
| Ing greater. Where Washington's name