Evening star., 1909-02-15
JOHN 4, SMALL DEAD PASTORS ON LINCOLN
Pioneer Florist Passes Away Select Marted President as
Aued 81 Years. Subject for Addresses.
FOUNDER OF LOCAL FIRM ICHAPLAIN HALE SPEAKS
In Business More Than Rev R. Shannon Discusses
Half Century Emanclpaors Religion
FAMOUS LANDSCAPE GARDENER EXERCISES AT THE T. G. A.
.... 30 Nav of canal,s W. other
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EXERCISES AT THE Y. NJ. G. A.
Judge W. F. Norris and other
Orators Pay Tributes-Epworth
League Celebrates.

Lincoln memorial service was held
in All Souls Unitarian Church, 14th and
l. streets. last evening under the auspices
of the Unitarian Club. Delbert H. Deck
err president of the club presided and in
troduced the speakers. Addresses were
made by Rev. Edward Everett Hale.
cha plain of the United States Senate: Maj.
Gen. A. W. Greedy and Commissioner
Macfarland.
Referring to Lincon's self crifice, no.
bility of character, generous charity and
patriotism that made his service to his
country his service to God DR.. Hale. who
was the first speaker said Lincoln should
be an inspiration to young and old to
live noble, patriotic lives.
"If we take the life of Lincoln in all
its greatness he added. land try to
live as he did. we will be better men
and women. better citizens. and better
patriots. He was a nobleman, great In
character, and coneiderate OF his enc
mics, and With a heart overflowing with
kindness for all men. He was the great
est character that this country has pro-
duCed. and his common sense and broad
ness of mind made it possible for him
to win for this country the great victory
of the war that closed at Appomattox.
He made a name for himself by the
greatness of his Christian character
Recalls Visit to Lincoln.
DIR. Hale related the incident when he
and party of friends called to pay
their respects and Lincoln walked into
the room holding in his hand a telegram
conveying Grants famous message Il
am going to fight it out along these lines
| if it takes all summer
Gen. Greedy. the next speaker said
that although he had never met the
martyred President he had seen him on
two occasions during the civil war. The
| last occasion was just at the close OF
| the seven days battle in the Wilderness,
| when the Union armies had retreated
to the peninsula.
AT that time said Gen Greely, "our
armies were demoralized, and bitter
criticism was rife against the President
and his mode of conducting the conflict,
| but his presence in the camps, where he
| showed the common soldier more atten-
| ton than he did the officers, had an IN
| spring effect, and the soldiers took new
| courage for the conflicts and victories
| that lay before them.
Lincoln had a sense of justice posi-
| bly, more keenly developed than any other
| man of his time: 1t was tempered with
| mercy that disarmed his enemies: he
was never bitter against his personal enc
mics. He loved truth, integrity and re-
spect of law and authority. and lived
i
| was due to these qualifications of heart
! rather than to his services to his coun-
| try
Commissioner Macfarland Speaks.
| Commissioner Macfarland who was the
| last speaker said that nothing was more
significant in the remarkable celebration
of Lincoln's birthday than the universal
| appreciation of Lincoln's patriotism. In
i ,, hoy ION a u
| as northern men, by foreigners as well as
/ Americans, that note was sounded. Pa
| triotism, they all agreed, was Lincoln S
| master passion.
Everything and everybody" Mr.. Mac
farland continued, was to be sacrificed
| If necessary to preserve the union of the
states, the life of the nation. We want
| this kind of patriotism. 1t is practical
and good for every day in the week"
| Lincoln the speaker declared, was the
| greatest orator of his time. but he served
| his country and all mankind with what
| he said His addresses are as important
| as any other facts in history, for they
were necessary to the success of his serv-
! ices
Mr. Macfarland concluded by paying a
tribute to Lincoln's knowledge of human
nature and the power of human eloquence
in shaping events and making character
which enabled him to meet every new
occasion. with it's new difficulties. in the
best way.
He knew how to use even enemies
and false friends for the common good,
il was remarked. HE knew how to la
Dor and how to wait, and he wrought
in every day the full measure of its
work with infinite patience. tact and that
which we call common sense, because Il
is common judgment seized and ex
pressed by uncommon minds. He lived
what he thought, and his patriotism wa:
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and serves the future and all the world.
Religion of Lincoln.
!. Rev. DIR. John Reid Shannon discussed
the religion of Abraham Lincoln before
large congregation in metropolitan
Methodist Episcopal Church last even
/. ing. He took for his subject 1.-The Re
ligion of Abraham Lincoln and the Re
ligious Doctrine in Which He Believed
With All His Soul The speaker de
clared emphatically that the emancipatol
did not stand with free thinkers or ag
| nosticS.
was inclined to skepticism and agnosti
: | cism," said DIR. Shannon. He wrote
book setting forth his views. This boOl
was destroyed by his political associates
5 who feared that it would ruin his politi
cal future Later Lincoln was led, un
der the influence of a Presbyterian
| preacher of Springfield, ILL.,, to examine
! the claims of Christianity.
| He became so convinced OF the dlvln
| authority and inspiration of the Bibl
that he gave himself in noble consecra
ton to the spiritual ideals of Christ
Love to God and Man.
"He believed in religion of love t
G cd and love to man, as set forth in tn
: Old Testament words:
{ "'What more doth the Lord thy Co
| require of thee, than to do justly, to b
5 merciful. and to walk humbly with th
God. and as set forth in the New Testa
4 men words: Thou shalt love the Lor
= thy God with all thy heart, and TIL
neighbor as thysef.
Excepting the Man of Nazareth. Lin
. coin was the most magnanimOus man
human history. He believed in the Chris
tian doctrine of forgiving and loving one
> enemies He never allowed bitterness o
. malice abuse to stand in the way O
| his doing a kindness to the man who ha
- injured him. Where can nobler words b
= found. written in any nation or in an
= age. than the immortal words with Whic
:, on the battlefield of Gettysburg he ha
= thrilled the heart of the world: Wit
; ; malice toward none, with charity for all
He believed in the Christian doctrin
of self-sacrifice: he was in this world t
serve and not to be ministered unto
Lincoln believed in the Christian doc
trine of prayer. Like Washington at Val
, lev Forge, he fought out the battle O
i Gettysburg on his knees before God L