The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15

OF LINCOLN
Subject of Mastery Address by DR..
Boardman at Baptist Church
Sunday Night
TO
PROBLEMS OF DAY
Resolution Adopted Addressed to
Representatives Moren and
Chamberlain, Asking Then to
Exert Influence.

Sunday evening at the First Baptist
church, at the conclusion of a master
ly address on Lincoln, by the pastor
Rev. H. l.. Boardman, a resolution was
adopted, addressed to Representatives
Moren and Chamberlin at Olympia
There were between $50 and 500 in
the congregation, at least $50 of them
being adults, who adopted the reso-
luton by rising vote.
The Resolution
We, company of citizens of
North Yakima met his Feb. -, 1911,
in commemoration of the birth of
Abraham Lincoln, are reminded of
some of the great principles of dem
ocratic government enunciated by him.
Among these are the principles:
That our government rests in pub
lie opinion that majority rule is the
only rule in a republic that the
people are the rightful masters of
congresses and courts that the one
great living living principle of all
democratic government is that the
representative is bound to carry out
the known will of his constituents
I'VE, an assembly of your consti-
tuents, note with pleasure your COM
mendable activity in behalf of GER
tain measures which we believe are
of great interest and value. We also
have noted with regret that you have
taken your stand in opposition to the
consideration of any liquor legislation
whatever at this session. We believe
this to be in direct contravention of
the principles above recited. We call
to your notice the fact, admitted on
all sides to be a fact, that popular
opinion at large in this county fav-
ors the enactment, at this session, of
Majority Senate Bill No. 121, pro-
viding for County Unit Local Option.
We believe that you are in duty
bound to carry out the will Of the ma
jority of your constituents in this
particular: and we hereby call upon
you to use all rightful means and ex-
ert all possible influence looking to
the consideration and passage of this
measure. when It shall have been
passed by the senate, and reported
over to the house"
Lincoln's Philosophy
Dr. Boardman's subject was Lin
coins philosophy as related to our
times" and his text were the words
of Paul on love, as found in the thir-
teenth chapter of First Corinthians
He said that no scripture better rep
resented the spirit and character Of
Abraham Lincoln than these verses
for he was essentially a great lover
"A lover of God and of his fellow
men-and upon a basis of this as
sumption we may best interpret hi
! life and deeds.
The subject was handled unde
three heads: His philosophy of per
sonal character; his philosophy of so
ciety, and his philosophy of govern
ment. Under the head of Lincoln
philosophy of personal life, the speak
err said:
mo man is really great who is no
great personality. 1t was the per
sonality of Lincoln which made hir
capable of serving his time with sue
tremendous effectiveness. We say tina
circumstances make the man, an
sometimes it is measurably true
: There should be no denial that tn
times and the surroundings of thi
man had much to do with his pre-
eminent success. But after all of thi
has been said. it still remains tru
that there was but one Lincoln fo
his times; and that he was what h
was because he had a personalit
which enabled him to fit into HI
niche in history's wall, and to serv
the great ends he so ably served.
The speaker mentioned the element
, of his great rsonality-kindness, pa
. tience, humility. courtesy, guilessnes
integrity and unselfshness-and i
: addition Lincoln was a seer. an ideal