The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
Great Gathering at Auditorium
to Honor Lincoln.
An Eloquent Address by DR..
Arthur Henderson.
STANDS ALONE AS PRESIDENT
No Other Ever Carried Such
Soul Crushing Burden.
An Excellent Program of APP
prOpriate Music.

Mr.. Lincoln has inherited the earth
in the very quality of the beatitude,
j The meek shall inherit the earth said
DR.. Arthur S. Henderson in his eulogy
of Abraham Lincoln at the Auditorium
Sunday afternoon. The occasion was
the celebration of the 103rd anniversary
of the birth of the nations hero, and
was attended by 1000 persons. mem
bers of the @. A. r. organizations and
/ school children being represented in
/ particularly large numbers.
God, in his hour of need,'' continued
the speaker, brings his chosen leaders
to the front, and so it has come about
in the moving scenes of the great stage
where Gods purpose is being accom-
plfshed that the child born that day in
the rude Kentucky cabin has moved
through poverty, obscurity, underesti-
nation, misunderstanding, to faith and
power, and sacrifice, and accomplish
ment, to a firm place in the love of a
great people and to Immortality as the
greatest American.
II shall attempt here no analysis or
| careful study of Lincoln's greatness,
but content myself with recalling with
you a, few of its manifestations
First I call to your thought his
splendid triumph over forbidding cir
cumstances. No man had lowlier
birth About no other mans cradle
did circumstances stand with more
frowning front. Think of the rude
environment of his boyhood and early
manhood; the meager chance of the
backwOOdsman to get the learning and
culture that means so much to life;
| the lack of books, the rarity of news
papers now so common; the hard
pioneering toll in which his early life
was immersed.
yet he compelled a culture in the
midst of these hard circumstances that
could enable him later to stand among
the graves at Gettysburg and speak in
a few brief sentences words that have
become a classic of patriotism, flash
ing with beauty of thought and die
ton, full of power to hold mems
thought and thrill their hearts long
after the rounded sentences, the per-
feet periods and splendid oratOry OF
Edward Everett are forgotten.
mot his early life alone, but his after
life well show his superiority to for
bidding circumstances. In his early man
hood he received a wound in the
-eath of the lovely girl who was his
promised wife The scar Of that sor-
row remained ever upon his life Later
came the disappointment of his political
ambition in the contest with Douglass
after such an intellectual effort as per-
haps was never made. by another Alan in
American public life Even when he came
to the presidency it was to face bitter
ness and factionalism and disunion and
war.
mo other president ever came to his
seat amid such unprecedented clrcum-
stances, or carried such heart breaking
and soul crushing burdens. Ihere is no
finer instance in all the long history OF
our race of a great soul wrestling the
best for himself and for mankind out of
the ragged edge of adversely and personal
suffering"
personal self control. No bitter word IS
he known to have spoken or written or
those who opposed him.
'.It is a well established fact that In ms
early years he was a Skeptic Inc nature
Of the skepticism do not know, but that
he came to a confidence and great 1a1th
in God is well known That he was a
man of prayer IN later years uoes no
admit of doubt
ssTThat truth must be borne in mind when
we think of this great strong, SAD sou
carrying the burdens of nation upon
his heart when the life Of that nation
vas threatened and its foundations rock
ed in the terrible tempest of civil war re
found God and trusted NM Like MOSES
of old he found a burning push pestoe
mis- halfway when great and soul terrliy-
no resnonsibilities were thrust upon him.
ana from the bush God spoke TO MN anu
gave him courage to bear ms Duroehs
and do his immortal work.
rrbe meeting was called to order by j.
r. Wood patriotic instructor OF Lincoln
Pos+ NJ / AS master of ceremonies
patrick H Coney, past department com
.an5er made a few appropriate remarks
eiseLsI 1atriotic selections were sung by
the Misses Wyatt, and the druIn c e -
lincoln Post furnished the hnd OF HhHslc USE ,
that had the tendency to make the IeSl
begin to move -. - IT. c 6
E-s+av and the benedicton was pIo-
no,1nced by the Rev. A. 3 Eimoree.
ny 3++eTx, s.R'' K N. G., looked after the |
LoAss $3.50 and the preservation of order |
George A. Huron read Lincoln Te1tys