The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-11

wit is eloquence what In music mel
Iody is harmony.
But his mind was not always at
tuned to mirth its chords were too
often set to strains Of sadness. There
was the slaughter in the field, the
depletion of the Treasury; complica-
tions which arose. All these were
50 appalling that sometimes even the
great soul OF Lincoln seemed ready
| to melt. But just when the gloom
was backest he never never took
counsel of his fears. He always
had the courage of his convictions.
He never had occasion to look to the
past with regret, nor to the future
with apprehension, He had that
sublime faith which is content to
leave the efforts of man, the results
to God.
For ages after the battle Of Their
'mopylae every Greek school child
Twas taught to recite each day the
names Of the three hundred heroes
who fell in defense of that pass. 1t
would be crowning act Of patriotism
lie every American school child
could be taught each day to contem-
plate the exalted character and utter
the inspiring name Of Abraham Lin
coin.
Singular man! No one can pluck
a single laurel from his brow, no one
can lessen the measure of his fame
Il n r.. In I,A a1e, ac oil
history we fail to find another whose
life had been so peaceful, whose ma
It,re so gentle, and Yet who was
called upon TO marshal the hosts of
an aroused people and. for four long
years to conduct a bloody, relentless,
fratricidal war.
In the annals of history, we fail to
find another whose education was
that of the Cabinet not the camp,
and yet VINO died more heroic
DEATH
II has seldom fallen TO the lot OF
man to strike the shackles from the
limbs Of bondmen and liberate a race
1t has seldom fallen to the lot OF
man to die the death of an honored
martyr, with his robes of office still
about him, his heart at peace with
his God, at the moment of the res.
toration of his country TO peace with.
in her borders, to peace with all the
world.
"A celebrated sculptor in the four
teenth century in Florence was com
manded TO make colossal statue
which was to surmount a histori
cathedral. When 1t was placed at tn,
base of the cathedral. the ropes ar
ranged for hoisting it. and It wa
there unveiled, the crowd jeered an,
hooted and criticized numerically th
sculptor. 1t was all out Of proper
ton; 1t was a failure. But soon tn,
ropes began to tighten, and as tn,
statue moved up into the air tn,
crowd ceased to jeer, and finally
when 1t was placed upon the pinnacl,
at the proper local distance as in
tended by the great sculptor. whit
created it, the sneers turned to plaud
It's, and the people then saw it in al
the beauty OF its true proportions
And so Abraham Lincoln has s,
FAR receded from us in history tha
he is now in the proper focal dis
tance. We can now measure all hi
great qualities as they appear il
their true beauty and symmetry.
am glad of the work of Th
Lincoln Farm Association. IT is we!
that his birthplace should be re
deemed from Individual ownership
II should be made the repository O
all the interesting relics connecte
with him. 1t ought to be the sea
OF n national museum and nationa
park. "-r~' NV
He Is gone from us now, crowne
with the sphlimity of martyrdom
We have b.dden last farewell t
him who was the gentlest of a
spirits, noblest OF all hearts, liberato
OF race. savior OF a Republi,
martyr. whose sepulchre is huma
lbaapfc