Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-13

ana causes no inconvenience. Cpii
accept a substitute.
these days in which we near so much
of making education easy, and about
making things so much palmer. We
are forced to turn back TO Lincoln's
life to find out what that life was.
In all the years he lived he never
went full year TO school. Think Of
that! He fought, as his father
fought. Indians in the forest. he
saw and he heard little of what we
call life, and yet he lived one OF the
largest lives ever lived.
Lincoln was like Napoleon. The
latter once asked il he could protect
the French government, said: 1 do
that which / undertake. The same
kind of an answer was always Lin
coins answer when he met difficulty
or q danger. He saw what our wise
men saw then, and our wisest men
see now, that this land of ours is
land of unlimited opportunities. Just
when he began his education we Will
never know. All that we do know is
this: That he read the Bible, Shakes
peare, "Pilgrim's Progress" "A Life
of Washington" some books on law
and such other books, of all kinds,
as he could beg or borrow. He was
never weary either of study, of his
own kind, or. work.
Had Lincoln remained at the bar.
baG he kept out of politics, he would
have surpassed Webster, or any great
man at the bar of England, but that
was not possible, it was not to be. A
great convulsion was tearing the
country North and South, and some
times East and West. The Civil
War was about to break and sweep
over the land. What could he or
what should he have done? He might
have patched UP a peace, he might
have gone into Dixie, shown the, hid
eous, horrible thing called disunion,
the monstrosity of buying and SELL
ing human flesh, Unidentified the
South, painted an eloquent picture of
Washington's and Jefferson's purpose
to wipe it all out to wipe out slavery,
and won. Do believe that he would
gladly have done that? As I believe
in God Why did not Almighty God
take that way? Ask Lincoln. He
tells us why, somewhere. Listen!
Slavery is unjust to the slave and
impolitic to the nation He saw that
both were bad. bad for everybody.
He proposed a system of gradual
emancipation with compensation to
the slave owners. That was only part
of his great, splendid purpose, and
that purpose was to lift our land out
of the slough of slavery higher than
any land on EARTH
''Where did he get all this? Where
did he get it2 Where could he get
it, if not from Gods good and great
Once. on the steps of the treasury
h.ti1dfno in, Wa ellington an ora for
talked for fifty minutes about our
flag and what it stood for. Lincoln
stood listening, impotence in his face
When the time came for him to talk
he seized the rope by which the flag
was to be drawn UP and said; I will
draw this flag up, if there is no hitch
in the rope, but it is the duty of the
American people to keep it there.
That was his address. 1t was like his
address, his wonderful address. at
Gettysburg. That speech ended with
the words, The government of the
people, for the people and by the peo-
pie must not perish from the earth
I'VE have more than 300, 900 Knights
of Columbus. We have many mill
ions of men who love that flag, and
all for which that flag stands, and
what does that flag stand for? The
rights under the constitution, and un-
der the flag, to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
II said, once, in Washington, that
had a great dream. l wanted to
see a monument erected in the plaza,
opposite the great railway station, to
Columbus. That has come to pass
The monument is there. 4 part of
the dream was to see monument on
the southern side of the plaza erect
ed to the memory of Lincoln; on the
northern side of the plaza monn-
ment to the memory of Lee. l have
a higher hope than that, and. that is
that all our people will bow before
the same God in the same way, with
the same love, the same faith and
the same hope that you have and I
have and that our fathers and our
mothers gave us.
Monsignor Isaac p. Wheelan
spoke on 1.-THE Catholic Priest 5
Viewpoint of This Celebration. /"
Catholics are patriots, he said,
because the Catholic Church
first started the idea that uRderlies
the United States government. the
principles of individual responsibility
and that the individual is worthy of
the trust. This order by its policy of
education. of the uplift of the in
dividual, of placing Catholics where
they can show what is in them, have
done more than the priests ever could
do to bring the right idea of the
Catholic Church to those outside it.
I'VE priests cannot go among the
people as you laymen can and have
TO do. You meet the world at bust
ness and there you are observed. If
those outside the church find you to
be high-minded and honest, if chosen
TO a place of trust upholding it as a
Catholic finely and admirably, then
they come to the conclusion that it is
as well to mix and have to do with
Catholics as with other men
There Is no country on earth where
the government is so supported by
the Catholic Church as this, and there
is no country where the government
is SO good to the church, The greater
this mutual support grows the better
it will be for the country and the