Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-16
VIRTUES OF LINCOLN TEXT
 FOR SERMONS
Bisbee Ministers Draw lnSpiT- alton From Life of the Rail Splitter anu Its Wholesome Lessons

The theme of the Sunday sermons in Risbee were followed closely by the national centenary. The Lincoln sermons were interesting and appro- Driate. Large c0ngrt gations were in evidence at all of the churches.
 Rev. F. '. Rally, pa tor Of the Methodist Epircopal church discussed Lincoln's sympathies. eslrscialiy his feeling toward the south. He saic ID part;
 Tt is a ommon experience to see the names of gre at men on the pages of literature. Hundreds Of volumes are dedicI cd to men. but during the month cf February, 1909. more pages have been printed in honor of Lin coln than of any other during a sim liar period in all the history of the world.
 There is a reason for this. A mighty and permanent rs sason; req son that time will not wipe out Lin coin had a big. kind. {, generous heart He had TO bitter words or thoughts for any one. Herndon says. I never heard Lincoln utter an uaiind word against any living soul
 He was kind to the dog the cat. the pig even the insects. He was kind to children. ever ready 10 hgEr them out of. their ntt'e troubles He was kind to h's 'sainted mrther, caring for her. reading to her and scarcely leav- ing her side during her last illness. He was dad to the soldiers. the pris- oners. often pardoning them to the dis gust of his generals. He seemed to love every one.
 After again reading thousands oi words from many and varied sources abont cur great American, VIC a ( ready to announce as we have in other years that he is the biggest man thai this ccuntry ever produce q, and cqua to any the world has produced. "it is not so easy to dCc'dc upor | the elements that made him great Great writers d'ffsr at this point. To day we will look at him in relation tC | the south. His origin in the sou'h, h. lcve for the south. his work for thu south. which would have solved th, lp~oblems there far more successfully than any other had he lived to carr. l them cut
 Lincoln was born in the south Kentucky. His father was born in ViI ! ginia. He gre uD a student of tn south and her problems. He went int the presidents chair because of hi interest in the souah. He endured an suffered and lahoreG for the south. Fl gave his blood aEd his life fer tn south. The wo-k he accumulated still blessing and will continue to bles the south. Had he lived ten year longer no part of the country wOui I asH sf
 Last riday. one hundred years fror his birth. speeches and editorials cam from all over the south. The corne, stone of national monument wa dedicated and placed in the south { mark his birthplace.
 "Todsy the south is leading the res of the nation, indeed Is far in advauc of the wcrld in it's efforts and accon plishments toward freeing the slave of hqucT from a far more 6egradin 1 serfdom than that which held the n' 1 gro. 4 thsooflws
 gro. As if to show her a,rDreciatio for the wok of Lincoln. as though sh would prove the value of the wor done by Linccln. she proclaims he determined purpose 10 lead the va to a more universal and beueficiI emancipation than any ever proclaim ed in the history of man.
 Let the blue and the gray join hand in placing their Sariands and jOi voices in singing cur song.
 At the morning service the churC enjoyed a splendid and viriie messaa delivered by MT. Titus of the Fl Pas Y. M. c. A. His address was an exp
 sition Of the twelfth che'1ter of JOh and exalted the Christ throughout M 1 solo.