The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-02-08
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METHODIST
CHURCH
ABRAHAM LINcoLN-TYPE OF
IDEAL CITIZENSHIP"
Reverend G. w. Mccreery Draws
Striking Lesson From Life of
Martyred President. a.

To we'll filled house last evening.
Rev. McCreery Spoke of Abraham
Lincoln-Type of Ideal Citizenship.
The church choir rendered some fine
selections and a spirit OF patriotism
pervaded the gathering Rev. Me-
Creery said:
Every age has It's own peculiar type
OF citizenship. That citizenship is
generally made typical in some one of
mere national spirit than others OF his
day. These men do not always reach
the highest places of honor, but his
tory In time interprets the place of
thcir influence. Few even of these
typical characters even represent
more than their age. Jesus Christ
however, represents humanity of all
time. Every age finds a kinship III
Him. Abraham Lincoln Is not only
the type OF the Americanism or
1S60-65. but he Is in peculiar way
the type of the highest Amerlcanism.
Not the Amerioanlsm of his day only,
but the ideal Americanism OF every
day The highest type OF citizenship
vi Oul lililC, anu IL Dt lIuC dS utCdlCo
pass by, this type finds its ideal in
the character who stood at the helm
Of the ship OF state as she rode the
waves between the shores of danger
from secession on the one hand and
lgnoble compromise on the other
hand,
One element Of greatness in all men
and II Is the chief clements the
environment in which he develops,
The evolution of forces that work up
on him and upon which he works.
makes for the greatness. The Revo-
iutionary war explains George Wash
llgton but Washington, by the force
of his strong character working upon
the environment grasped the situa'
tion and prevented disaster. Men
meet disaster because they can not
grasp the opportunity. A great mai
always has great opportunity II It
does not seem so 1t is because he mas
failed to find and use It. We wish
TO trace some of the American traits
that developed Lincoln, making the
opportunity into which the man ell.
tered. The man and the opportunity
made the history. History that fcT
all time will stand out gloriously. Not
so much that 1t was war time, but
rather that it was the time of clash
ing between Belfishness and unset
1.shness. Men suffered for the most
and this in Itself Is the ideal of citi
kehship In the midst OF the struggle
tPere stood one head and shoulders
stoye his fellows. physically. men
tally and Christly. He is the product
Gf the agitation of great moral Is
sue. but he is also a cause. In the
Injngling of the two we find the ex-
plantation of both. Evolution and the
cause back of it are found in the per-
sonality of Abraham Lincoln.
We discuss Abraham Lincoln
Type OF Ideal Citizenship.
1.-The American Square Deal.
jGIT-The American Honor.
81 III.-The American Religious Life
These We will DISCUSS that they
may explain him, and that he may
manifest them.
1.-The American Square Deal: This
nation has been peculiarly devoted 10
the policy that every man should
faye fair chance. 1t has been our
demand that no matter what ones
birth, he should not be prevented
thereby in his efforts at self-better-
ment In other words, every man
should have square deal, He should
have a chance to develop himself
equal to that of any other. Abraham
Lincoln manifests the working OH:
Of this policy. He was born in poy.
CITY but that was in his favor HIS
father is generally pictured as rest
less, rowing pioneer Perhaps he was,
hut he was man of some Will power,
and we may find his rowing tendencies
conveyed 10 his son in whom 1t ap-
peared in that worthy ambition that
made him restless unless he bettercd
himself That ambition that took him
from the scanty farm life to the com
munity store. there 10 study Law, TO
be a political aspirant, to drive him
self even to do better. A restless
ness controlled for better things
mastered. His mother, careful and
saving. led the boy In his early lite TO
aspire. AS the man said of his mother
that he owed all to his angel mother
so we see her sweet influence. The
rard. rough frontier life with Its scant
to great necessities developed
the strength that mastered 1t. Happy
;he man who has learned how to over
comel Lincoln was equal to the task
aid the task made him greater Ease
end luxury could not produce a Lil-
coin. He had TO be cradeled in hard
ship The great task of a great ma.
tional crisis required an oak of the