The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-13
Beautiful Tribute Paid TO
Martyred President by the
Rev. Mr.. Simpkin.
SERVICE IS ATTENDED
BY HOWARD POST, G. A. R.
Emancipator Made Prayer
Great staff of Life, Pastor
Declares.

The Lincoln anniversary was borne IN
mind Sunday at Phillips Congregational
church, when in the morning the Rev.
z. A. Simpkin preached upon the great
patriot IS life, emphasizing especially the
religious side Of his life. o. 0, Howard
post, G. A. r., was in attendance. In
the service of memory held for the be
loved martyr president, Mr.. Slmpkin
said in part:
"Iu Abraham Lincoln, America and
humanity have rich heritage WIN
revercnt gratitude the world turns to
remember him anew. In its rugged and
homely grandeur. his life towers on the
plains of life like a mighty beacon.
"If genius shall be the measure OF
greatness, it is here in this son OF the
west, whose soul moved with God like
certitude amid the maze Of question
and duty that hedged him, with a
strength that grlpped the heart and
truth of issues momentous to his coun-
try and humanity, which, attended by
a clearness Of vision and wisdom great
and automatic, made him the wonder OF
the great ones of his time.
elf achievement casts the mold OF
greatness, then did he achieve. What
life builded statelier road than he!
1t reached from the humble log cabin,
now embodied by the marble and bronze
that express a nation IS hero-worshlp,
to that seat Of authority and glory, IN
the earth incompatible, the leadership
of the greatest democracy of history.
Lincoln 8 Achievements.
'fThe humble ax-man of the frontier
builded himself in patient drudgery and
unremitting Development into great
statesman and philosopher.
n{r1r 1,t SoI
into mastery that made possible the
great victory over the supreme constl-
tutional problem Of his century.
HThe simple lawyer, moving from
quiet Springfield to the world stage, lit
by the fierce lights of diplomacy and
war, walked a king, doing in the simple
way of duty as great task as man
ever achieved. These are broken sug-
gestions of his achievement! Whose is
greater7
"Aud if humanity, sympathy, pity,
love make greatness, then among the
lives ranked about the Nazarene, who
was in himself loves perfect law, the
white flower Of pity. is none more
worthy to wear the chaplet of greatness
than this man, with mother instinct for
America within his heart, with malice
toward none, with charity for all, keep
ing IN bitter time a heart Of sweet
ness, and seeking not victory, but peace,
moi conquest, but righteousness, not
glory, but liberty for men S blessing.
Loved Christian Life.
Judged by any standard, Lincoln
was great, and even his religious life
though never formally brought into the
communion of Christian organization,
for it was, in simplicity and sincerity,
Of a piece with his whole character.
"The narrower vision of yesterday
esteemed Lincoln not to be religious, be-
cause forsooth he was not churchly. 1t
is seen clearly now, In testimony abun-
dant and irrefragable, that he had a
religious soul, and that in the great
struggle. hours of his life, that soul
rooted in the power and guidance of
Christian faith.
"From his earlier years the influence
life to that ideal. He entered the
White House not a professed Christian,
or profound religionist, Two things,
however, marked his lure from young
manhood strongly, One was the con-
sciousness of a relation between God
and himself, the other that prayer
opened the way for his meeting of the
obligation of that relationship.
Prayer staff of Life.
"Abundant testimony is at hand that
he made prayer the great staff of his
life while at Washington, and. in his
dependence on the supreme ruler is the
secret of that endurance, charity and
patience that kept him from the broken
heart and conquered mind amid the
agones and demands of those terrible
years.
"And one is glad to believe that in
those trying days, when none more
than he longed 60 see peace, none realiz-
ing more clearly than he that its only
way of return was along the road Of
war-compelled union, that the acid of
secession eating out the nation s foun-
dation could be nullified only by the
fires of war. with the burden of argu-
ment, pressure of problem and thrust
ton, he found in resting on the Eternal, ,
whose instrument he knew himself to
be- the snstenance and strength that