Evening journal., 1920-02-12

Born in a Kentucky cabin that was
doorless. loorless and windowless, truly
be was Humilay's child. but ne be-
came Humanty's man, how9
How did he become the leading law
yer Of his bar. the party leader OF
bis slate, the orator Of his people, and
fhe statesman OF his age2
Herndon. his law partner for more
han IS years. knew him most inti-
naiely and wrote OF him:
"Hls conscience. mis- heart and all The
faculties and qualities OF his mind bow
I'd submlssiyely 10 The despotism of his
as0n. He lived and acted from the
iandatd Of reasOn-ghat throne Of logic,
ame OF principle, the realm Of deity
man. 10 is from this point Mr.. Lin
I'm must be viewed"
Thousands OF volumes have been writ
q MS Of thousands OF speeches have
en- made on the outside" Of Lincoln.
yet very little has been written or
oxen about the insld OF Lincoln.
.iod Almighty seems 10 have ex-
usicd all natures resources on the in
NNINl lillN AN NA AalANNAM. AAANAA was
Re ieft Tor outside finish.
le story Of how Lincoln developed
mental and moral forces. and how
nobiized and utiliz them in ac-
u, should be OF peculiar interest 10
Americans, young and old. Let
ncoln himself tell this story as he
4 In 1860, before his nomination toI
ia presidency The more pertinent
rt is as follows:
i could not sleep although tried TO,
when | got on such a hunt for an
idea. until l had got it, | was not sat
isfled until ! had repeated II over and
over again. until had put il in Ian
suage plain enough as l thought for
any boy ! kn.w TO comprehend. This
was a kind OF passion with me. and Il
has stuck by me; for am never easy
NOW when am handling a thought. un-
III have bounded IL north. bounded g
south. bounded It east and bounded It
west
Lincoln was a student in school but
six months. according TO his own state
ment but he was a student ont OF
school all the rest OF his life.
He was his own tesrhcr-his own
pupil. What a teacher. What a pu-
Oil. What results. This brief inter
,iew furnishes to the student. young
and old his four great commandments
70 knowledge and reason:
Commandment 4 "Hunied for an
idea until had caught IT," The pas
sion Of The hunter that pursues The
game until captured.
Commandment 2. "Repeated II over
and over again" Study it. Assimilaie
tito utilize H
Commandment 3. "Put it in language
plain enough for any boy ! knew TO
compreh nd Simplicity and strengih
Of speech He got IL chiefly from the
Bible. Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress, Ae-
sop; De Foe. the dictionary.
Lincoln avoided superlative and polly
sylables. and used the simple short
word-thc concrete noun hnched 10 an
active verb. See G ttysburg speech.
Commandment 4 Bounded If north.
bound d it south. bounded It east.
bounded It west" This sounds like
lesson in geography. Il is gh. Ian
guage Of the surveyor. Lincoln became
surveyor at %, and as ne surveyed
lots and lands. so also he surveyed ideas
with the chart and compsss Of his keen
analytic mind.
These Lincoln rules for mental and
moral conduct in studying any given
situation. its fundamental facts. its pri-
mary principles, can be appropriated
and assimilated and then applied by any
average American student They fur
Dish the key TO his very great efficiency