The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-07
LYMAN ABBOTT
 PRAISES MIR. TAFT Editor of the Outlook Tells Vale Students That Famous Grad uate Has Laid Down His
 Life for His Country.
FOLLOWED DUTY ALWAYS
Longed for a Supreme Court Bench But Refused It for Less Pleasing Work--Pcril in Football NeC-
 cssary for Good Men.

Rev Dr Lyman Abbott of New York, editor of The outlook, addressed the Yale students in Rattell chapel yester- day morning and in the evening ad- dressed the general university meeting in Dwight hall
 The talk in thA evening was very in- formal and In It's course pr Abbott paid 9 great tribute to William How ard Taft He said: "The man who has recently been elected president of the United States is an excellent example of 2 man who is laying down his life for his country, Just as Washington and Lincoln did In the case of Abra | ham Lincoln there was no need of his death to show that ho had laid down his life His martyrism was an incl dent He was laying down his life In the four years of the civil war and the period preceding it Washington laid down his life just the same way In tho revolution and the years following, and the fact that he died peaceful death makes his life none the less self saeri- hcing
 About Mir Taft know of personally and do not need to rely on newspaper accounts Mir Taft's own wish has al.
 ways been to be judge President Mckinley wanted someone to cross thc l seas to the Philippines and lay tho foundations for a civilized government among the little brown people. Taft dld not wish to go, but when Mckinley i told him that he was the hest man l available for the position he responded | to the call Of duty and went to the | Philippines While there he was of. | ferod a position on the supreme cour' | bench. the position which he had hoer working for and desiring for years | His duty to the little brown people led ! him to decline and he remained in the l Philippines until he was recalled Co he
 come secretary of war. While In tha
 office he has always had at heart tho ] interests of tho people over whom
 President Mckinley sent him to rul' and as the result of his work he will
 sometime see them free people In tht | hroadest sense of tho word
 | While Taft was secretary of war a 1 place on the supreme court bench wa' again offered him. and this timc he wa longer in refusing The place was helc open for him and was very alluring, at
 tractlng him moro than an admiuistra i tive office But the call of duty agair l led him 10 refhse and from now on ht
 win continue 10 lay down his life fol 1 his country as he has ever since he on
 tered public life
 Another good example of man nh'
 Is laying down his life for others f
 found pr Grcnrell He was lead 1 ing physician In London and could havt
 surrounded himself with every luxury
 He became interested In tho fishermen
 and sailors who came into the harhol
 at London and learned of the people o | ahradoi who had no physicians iron
 one years end to the other So insteaC
 of raising money for someone clse to z,
 to Labrador as he could have easily
 done Dr. Circnfoll went himself aban
 donins tho luSuries of London for th,
 hardship of Labrador But they Wer,
 not hardships for him and the trues enjoyment, that or service to fellow
 men he found in that desert country