The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-02-13

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the Tabernacle was very impressive
| and interesting to the large audience
that listened to them The spacious
building was filled to oyerfowing,
members OF the Dix-Logan camp OF
the G. A. R., the Ladies' Relief Corps
OF the Grand Army of Ogden. and the
Spanish War Veterans of the city at
tending in a body.
The building was beautifully deco
rated with American flags and potted
flowers. The Tabernacle choir fur
nished the singing for the occasion
and their renditionS were highly ap-
preciated. The numbers given by the
choir consisted OF the national an
thems: Star Spangled Banner"
| Battle Hymn of the Republic" the
closing number being God Be With
us TIL We Meet Again" Owing to
the fact that there was no piano at the
Tabernacle the music programmed to
be given by the High School orches-
ira was omitted. but the members
natty uniform.
Reverend H. d. Zimmerman pro-
nounced the invocation, after which
the audience, led by the choir, sang
America"
The address OF Judge John E. Bag
ley on Lincoln as a man and states
man, was one of much interest The
audience was held in papt attention
during the address. 1he speaker re.
ferred briefly to Lincolns life as
citizen and student laboring under
TNo 4 Ifcl .l,r
tended, was "the man of the hour
which was most precisely exemplife3
In him as statesman. He stated that
Lincoln was both n military and a
civil genius in the administration of
the affairs of the government. Be
coming president as ne did, at a time
when the nation was sorely tried from
a civil and military point of view, he
proved himself equal 10 the occasion
and during his career as president be-
came the great disciple OF personal
liberty He stated that Lincoln was
the exemPlifcation of "life, liberty and
the pursuit OF happiness" as enunci-
ated in the declaration of independ-
ence. His conception OF personal lib
erty. the speaker asserted, was ideal
in every particular and that the oppor-
tunity afforded him, coupled with his
innate qualifications in craftsmanship
and military Generalship furnished the
power to successfully achieve that
1deallsm In the United States. Life,
Liberty and the Pursuit OF Happiness
Mr Bagley asserted, was the slogan
that prompted Abraham Lincoln to
action and that he, Lincoln, succeeded
more than any other American In the
enforcement Of that idea Abraham
Lincoln. he said, was the first white
man in the world TO uncover his head
and bow to colored man, which act,
he said. strongly enforced the idea of
equality between men. This, the
speaker said, was done by Lincoln in
recognition Of the same courtesy that
had been extended to Lincoln by
negro Immediately after the civil war
Mr.. Bagley stated that 1t was the first
recognition of the rights OF the col
ored man In three hundred years. it
meant the equality of man He said
that Lincoln was loved as a man and
as statesman, both in the north and
the south Of the United States, and"
said the speaker, had Lincoln lived
ten years longer the bitterness OF
feeling between the North and South
would have long since been elimi-
mated"
The Reverend j. E. Carver OF the
Presbyterian church spoke OF Abra-
ham Lincoln as the great "emanclpa-
tor" of human slavery. He spoke of
the martyred president as one who
had been reared under discouraging
environments and the one in our ma
tional history who had struggled
over all obstacles to the point of mas
terry. He spoke of how he had toiled
III his studies before the tlreside and
at the workshop and in the face OF
the irony of his contemporaries until
he reached the eminence of his Ideal
ism: the absolute equality between
men, Mr., Carver said that above all
else Abraham Lincoln was man who
could conquer his own prejudices and
that that was one of his characteris-
tics that made him great The speak !.
or dwelt considerably upon the early
life OF Lincoln, the teachings he re- /
ceived from his mother his career as
a politician and finally his great !