The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-02-08

them, while he always knows where
to find the others, which stay where
they arc left. Thus he learns-thus
we learn-to drop the streakcd and
spcckled globes OF falsehood and to
hold fast to white angular blocks Of
truth But then comes Timidity, and
after her God-nature, and last OF all
Polite-behavior, all insisting that truth
must roll or nobody can do anything
with It, and SO the first with her
coarse rasp, and the second with her
broad file. and the third with her silk
en- sleeve, do so round off and smooth
and polish the snow-whitc cubes OF
truth. that, when they have got little
diney by use, II becomes hard to tell
them from the rolling spheres OF false
hood"
AS with Truth, so with Life-God
would have every boy become a truo
man. but society.made moulds begin
to change and often hinder the pur-
poses of the Almighty. They shape and
round OFF character TO make 1t agree
able to society. Sometimes 1t is the
misguided Indulgence OF parents that
mis-shapes the man Into the migrate;
sometimes 1t Is a system OF education
that enlarges the intellect. at the ex-
pense of the heart. sometimes 1t Is
society that makes the man pretend
what he is not; sometimes It's creed
which, like an iron clasp. prevents the
soul from true development; some
times It's political ambition that trans
] forms what might have been a states
, man into groyelling politician.
Abraham Lincoln was not the prod
uct Of any Of these influences. When
at 29 years of age, he walked into
Joshua F. Speeds store In Springfield,
Illinois, to buy $17.00 worth Of furni-
ture, which he could not pay for. he
still possessed in purity, the attributes
of the God-made child. He was Abra-
ham Lincoln, the God-made man.
The outside man did not show it.
His tall, lank form. six feet four
inches IN height, seemed ungainly and
awkward; and the long linen duster
hanging from his frame as IL 1t were
q rack, did not make his person more
imposing Little twinkling gray eyes
were half hidden In their deepened
sockets. The shadows Of sorrow pass
ed frequently over his furrowed face,
and added to all this, his figure slight
ly stopped. "Oh, how this exterior
semblance belied the souls immensi-
ty!"
Let us get beneath the surface. Man
is a triple being, made up as he is OF
Intelligence. Emotion and Will by
the development and exercise OF these
three faculties the individual Is known
A truly great man will have them all
we'll developed, and under control.
each serving the ends OF the others.
The world attributes greatness to
men who were even deficient in one
or more OF these powers. There is
Pope, with his massive intellect, salts
flying the literary wants OF an intel
lectual age. We quote him today in
thousand maxims In the literary
world he Is among the worlds lead
ers. but his emotional nature, like his
body, was dwarfed. Burns, on the 9TH
er hand, with a strong intellect to go
with 1t. had an emotional nature, that
has charmed the world His heart
songs strike responsive chords In every
human breast But his will was weak
and lacking in this power, the poet
was often humiliated because Of the
excess into which his unchecked emo
tional nature led him.
Napoleon Is a type Of the indomit-
able will and massive intellect, but
lacking In emotion.
Abraham Lincoln was great In the
development of his emotion, his In
tellect and his will,
No man ever possessed tenderer
heart The budding of sorrow began
when he was about six years old, His
father was determined to move from
Kentucky to Indiana While the faith
er was away searching for a new home,
the mothers heart was aching at the
thoughts Of leaving the old one. A
little baby brother had been born In
that new cabin. and had died in In
fancy The little grave was out in
the wilderness. and 1t was hard for the
mother to leave 1t forever.
One day she took the boy Abe by the
hand and paid a farewell visit to the
grave. The child In silence beheld the
grief of his mother and carried that
scene in his memory to his dying day.
About three years later he sat by
the bedside of his dying mother. From
that time, like the Divine Master. he
was "a man OF sorrow and acquainted
with grief"
Lincoln's first experience as lover
ended so fatally as to rack his soul
as nothing up to that time had done.
While at New Salem he fell In love
with young woman, named Ann Rut-
ledge. She WAS a beautiful girl, strong
of character and refined In manners.
Very dlf1idently and modestly he told
her Of his love, but In the beginning
of this budding happiness. almost be-
fore he could realize what this new
experience Of joy was. his sweetheart
fell sick and died.
ITO see this flower fade and die ere
1t bloomed, filed him with the darkest
despair. In his sentiments and emo
tions, Lincoln remained always a prim-
itive man, simple backwoodsman. No
elevation OF mind OF station seemed to
affect these elements Of his nature
His heart was unchanged to the end.
He never rose superior to its aches
and appeals; he could always cry"
Years afterward he said, II really