The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-14
LINCOLN IS VIEWED
AS MODERN PROPHET
Rabbi Freund Delivers Address
on Subject in First NJ, L.
Church.
BELIEVES THE LIBERAT0R
WAS DIVINELY INSPIRED
Upbraids American People for
Neglect of Memory of Their
Great Men.

| Lincoln. the Prophet of Humanity"
would he fitting caption for the ad-
| dress delivered by Rabbi Z. ], F'rcund.
Of the Temple B'nai Israel. In the first
Nj. T. church Sunday night II was as Il
prophet that the rabbi spoke of tho great
| libcrator and he carried his text 10 Il
complete conclusion \ large cungrcSa
| ton was present and the choir and an
orchestra gave beautiful musical sclcc-
| tions.
| After brief preface, Rabbi Freund
said that the year 1909 was an event
! ful one tor the celebration Of centcnarics
but none was celebrated with greater
rcYCrcntal ceremony than was that of
! Lincoln. The speaker asserted that, now
! that the event was over. The memory OF
( The people was short and lie asked how
! birthday Saturday, II was a legal holt
day and the people engaged in business
as usual. There was so much material
! Ism that the people would not take time
TO honor the memory OF great men 1t
was 10 the blame oil the American peo-
| pie that in the materialism so often man l.
make the slightest sacrifice to pay tribute
| TO the memory OF such men as Abraham
| Lincoln.
Lincoln Lived for All.
! Rabbi Freund said that he considered
| Abraham Lincoln as the prophet OF hu-
manity. He had not clrCumScribed him,
| His life was not only lived for the Ameri
can people, but lived for the world al
large. Lincoln brought message to the
world at large. The time In which he
| lived WAS one of the most momentous
periods in the life Of the American ma
| ton. Things had 10 bc done and they
were done in the only possible way In
which they could be done. Lincoln was
not opportuniSt. he was not petty. lie
rose above the times and all things that
I had to be done were done in the way he
I.n
mated Lincoln as prophet. consider
the proper conception OF Il prophet TO I've
! that 81 prophet was u GlVnely Inspired
| indiy idual having TO the people of his
day and time a message from on high. so
| that The prophet was ;hc spokesman OF
| Deity, the messenger of the Lord OF
| Hosts, As such. we may feel certain
| was Abraham Lincoln in the work that
! he had 10 do
Prophets Do Not Follow.
Lincoln could not abolish slavery until
! the hour for its demise had struck. lie
! refused TO issue the proclamation ol
emancipation at time that 1t could not
| be wisely carried out, lie waited long,
! resisting appeals TO his conscience until
the hour struck. Lincoln was the peer
| less leader in the night for the eXtcrmina
and for his time. The prophet does no,
| follow; he leads. He is III the vanguard
20 point out and designate the way. and
the way that Lincoln pointed led to the
. VI llSllccuSiltSS 4AS IL ItsiutL
Lincoln showed himself made OF that
| stuff of which saints. prophets and lead
crs OF men are truly constituted.
Abraham Lincoln was an inspired in
divi1ual. and chosen of God 70 do the
great work that he did Humanity made
It's call on Lincoln and through Lincoln
was the proper answer given to that
cali. He was the prophet OF humanity
and for humanity born OF the common
people OF whom hc said God must have
lovco tho common people or else how
could He have made so many OF them?
Lincoln suffered not for the south but
with the south, and was the prophet not
only for the people OF tile north. but oil
tho south and of the world al large
bearing the message that was his 10
give"