The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-09

that the southern states-tO use his
homely pharseology-'should come
back home and behave themselves
and If he had lived he would have
made this wish ~effectual as he made
everything to which he seriously adj
dressed himself. Poor. insane John
Wilkes Booth! Was he, too, an in
strument in the hands Of God to put
a still deeper damnation upon the
taking off Of the Confederacy and to
sink the southern people yet lower
in the abyss Of affliction and humilia-
us?"
He spoke of Lincoln's teaching and
example, and paid a glowing tribute
to President Taft, az follows:
Tragedy walks hand-in-hand with
history and the eyes of glory are wet
with tears-'With malice coward
none. with charity for alr-since
Christ said blessed are the peace
makers for they shall be called the
stirred to its depths by human ext
gency. delivered a message SO sub
lime? Irresistably the mind cur
t othat other martyr Of the ages,
whom not alone in the circumstances
Of obscure birth and tragic death. but
in those Of simple living and child
like faith. Lincoln SO closely resem-
Ul0U. 1Ou IOWly SoOlll WHASAA 10 Z OC
officially dedicated on the morrow
may we'll be likened to the manager
Of Bethlehem. the boy that went
thence to Il God-like destiny. to the
SO nof God, the Father Almighty, Of
him and of us all. For, whence his
prompting except from God?
"Thcre r utterances of his which
on the Mount. Reviled even as the
Man of Galilee, slain, even as the Mar
Of Galilee, yet as gentle and as unof-
Tending, a man who died for men!
Roll the stone from the grave and
what shall We see? Just an Ameri-
ran. The Declaration OF lndepend-
ence hts confession Of faith. The
ark and covenant of liberty. The
union his redoubt. the flag his shib-
boleth. Called like one of old. with
in a handful Of years he rose at a SUI
preme mOrnen to supreme command.
fulfilled the law Of his being, and
| passed from h scene an exhalatton
of the dawn Of freedom. We may
bc of good heart. sure that right
makes might %entreating us to pur-
sue with firmness in the right as God
gives us to sec the right
1.-The problems he met and solved
are problems no longer. Other. 1t
may be greater problems, rise DeIOre
us. Shall there arise another Lin
coin?
MAY God grid round and guard
his successor in the great office of
chief magistrate whom we have here
with us this day; give him the soul
Of Lincoln to feel, Lincoln's wisdom
to SEQ and know; to tho end that
which ever OF the parties prevail and
to whatever group of men are COM
mitted the powers of administration.
whole-hearted devotion to the public
service and large-mlnded fidelity To
American institutions may continue
to glorify the teaching and example
His peroratton was as follows:
LIE us here highly resolve the
words still ring Ike 81 trumpet-call
from that green-grown hillside OF
Gettysburg dotted with the graves OF
heroes, that these men shall not have
died In vain; that his nation. under
God. shall nave a new birth of fere.
dom: and that government Of the PEG.
pie. by the people and for the people
shall not perish from the earth Re-
peat the declaration. AS We gather
about this efigy In bronze and marble