The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-13
GREAT AMERICAN.
Governor Stubbs' Estimate of
Abraham Lincoln.
Great Emancipation Had More
Wisdom Than Human.
DIR. ESTEY'S ADDRESS.
An Eloquent Tribute to the
Martyr President.
DIR. A. S. Embree and HI. b..
Kelly Deliver Addresses.
DIR. ESTEY'S ADDRESS.

church by Lincoln post No. and
Ladies circle No. of the Grand Army
| of the Republic.
The church was fittingly decorated
with flags, pictures of Lincoln. the
banners of the lodges, palms and flow
representatives of the two lodges of
which committee P H. Coney was
| chairman and the ushers were Battery
| b., of National guard in uniform
| The church was filled with veterans
and their wives who are ever eager to
| hear further tributes to the great
enanclpator Every seat in the
| church was occupied as the Lincoln
Centenary overture was played by the
organist, w. F. Roehr. The meeting
was called to order by Chairman p H.
Coney, who introduced Governor w.
h Stubs as president of the meeting.
The governor spoke of Lincoln as the
great American i'm part:
There has been no event in the
century of so great Importance as the
life of Abraham Lincoln said he. HE
had wisdom more than human; he had
pure heart, and he had a patriotism
surprising all I regard the old sol
diers who served with him as great
men. They occupy a peculiar position
in America and in the history of the
whole world. They served with the
great commander-in-chief for the
preservation of the Union. 1t is a
beautiful thought to me that when
these veterans cross the last river they
will associate with this great Ameri-
can. When he passed away the savior
of liberty to MILLIONS was dead. The
memories of Lincoln are the ties that
bind the hearts of our countrymen to-
gether now
DIR. Estey's Address.
One of the most impressive address,
es was that of Rev. S. S. Estey, whose
subject was Lincoln" AS COM
parison of this savior of our Union to
the Savior of humanity, Rev. DIR. Estey
spoke of Lincoln as ''the human man
of sorrows" as Jesus was the divine
man of Sorrows mo man since
Washington said DR.. Estey, has so |
much attracted the pens of writer's and |
the tongues of orators as has Lincoln.
The story of Lincoln's life has a |
tragic touch to hurt the hearts of a |
nation of souls and yet we are. all bet
ter for it. We feel that we have been |
through the field with a martyr and |
are purer for the journey. When a ,
mere boy of six years Lincoln fighting !
a gang of boys who sneered and jeered !
at him and whom he gave sound |
thrashing formed the foundation for /
his everlasting fight against aristocracy |
and as in this fight where he called |
to the gang to come on, he always |
cried to the crowd to come on and he |
was the last to give quarter. Made |
a captain of squad of rough and |
drunken men at the age of % and |
expected to discipline them for the In |
dian warfare, he entered a great strug- |
gle where he gained much of his mas |
terry of men, one day exerting every |
ounce of his influence to save an old
Indian from being murdered by his
men after he had been captured and
the next day pleading for supplies for
those men implanted his spirit in their
hearts as in after years his firm JUS
tice won all hearts to him. 1t was in
this time that Lincoln took up that
motto as his own, oh, why should the
spirit of mortal be proud.
Lincoln to Taft.
H. B. Kelley delivered an address
"Our Country, Lincoln to Taft show
ing the great advancement made pos
sible by the preservation of the ma
tons unity. He said in conclusions:
above the clouds that may gather
to darken our horizon, our marvellous
development compels belief in an over
ruling providence shaping the destin-
les of the American republic. This
development under the constitution
opened with the leadership of Wash
ington, wisely and periodically laying
the foundation of National govern
ment in face of a widespread repug-
nance to the national idea. 1t then
fell to the leadership of the inspired
Lincoln to guide the republic through |
the fires of civil war with a national |
baptism in the blood of patriotism. |
Later when decentralization and de- |
bauchery were threatening democracy I
with immOlation upon the altar of
mammon, an inScrutib1e power raised /,
tration called the people to the rescue |
of the nation from the course of Ro-
man decadence Three presidents
among twenty-six in the first hundred /
and twenty-years of government under |
the constitution, each of whom was .
peculiarly fitted for his time and con- /
ditions will be known in history above /
all others as leaders in national con-
struction and development of Demo-
cratic government, and these are:
Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt"
Lincoln as a Christian.
Rev A S Embree spoke on Lin
coin as a Christian" In concluding
he said:
about three conclusions there can
be no question.
zone is that Abraham Lincoln was
a Christian. Another is that he was
a man sent from God. And another
is that to him more than to any other
man since. the days of the Man OF
Nazareth is the world indebted for its
most conspicuous and best example of
the life which we should try to attain
"Once upon this platform / heard
great churchman and great orator
saw; MIR Lincoln was not member OF
the church while 1 have given the best
energies of my life to the building UP
the church, but if in the hour and
possible gloom of death I am called TO
the brink of the river which separates
time from eternity and have any doubt
about my destiny, if am permitted 10
look over to the other side and can see
'*Old Abe I will finish the journey IN
for where he is there is
good company.
Three special features of the pro-
gram were a song, Lincoln Day II
Linco1n,s Land written by capt: D. u:
Waters and sung by the Wyatt slslers'
and original song by MISS Eve Corning;
''rThe Flag That Never Comes Down,
and an original poem, Lincoln, Inc
Wonderful" by J. L. Eldrldge-
IT SUPPOSE said the fair prison visitor