Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
UST of looks Down Upon the Worsh of bingham
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with flags and bands and holiday
garb, welcomed back to his ancient
home their distinguished kinsman
from overseas.
AS it turned out. the memorial could
not have been installed at a more
suspicious time or when it's message
was more Sorely needed. 1t is right
that we should honor the Lincoln log
cabin. but in this Pilgrim year it is
well for US to extend our pilgrimage
beyond the log cabin, back to the
homeland. where we may read the
classic message in it's new setting
and rejoice in the fact, historically
proved and internationally ratified.
that the greatest descendant of Puri-
tan lineage is Abraham Lincoln:
In this parish for many generations lived
the Lircolns ancestors of the American Abra
ham Lincoln; to whom. creates. Of that
Lineage. many citizens Of the United States
have erected this memorial in the hope that
for all ages between that land and this land
aud all lands there shall h. Malice toward
none. with CHARITY for ALL
X = X
THE original plan for the Lincoln
= wall tablet was designated by
member of the Yale Art School, the
stone frame was approved by the best
authorities on church architecture.
the inscription was written by the
Rev. DIR. Milo II. Gates of New York.
and the marble bust by Volk. made
from a life mask Of the great emanci-
pator, was selected as the best to
place at the side of the tablet. While
this bust is not as familiar to us as
are the bearded portraits of Lincoln.
it is considered by members of his
family as the truest likeness. physi-
cally and spiritually. Artists and
friends are, all agreed that it was
perfect reproduction of his face, and
greatly beautiful in it's humanness
and gravity. OF course, marble can
not give "the kindest eyes ever placed
In mortal head" but barring that.
this Volk bust is undoubtedly the bust
for the ages. 1t is that of a man who
has held to his vision and has re-
cefved times accolade. AS the beck
oning new world of freedom was the
compelling vision of LincoIn's ances-
tors, SO was the land of freedom for
all the vision of their illustrious de-
scendants: Tablet and bust arrived
at Old bingham just as the call to
war startled peaceful world.
Every schoolboy in the United States
is. or should be. familiar with the
story OF the migrations of the Lin
coin pioneers from Virginia to Ken
lucky, where our Abraham Lincoln
was born. and on through Indiana to
Illinois. where the martvred President
lived and is now buried. But few have
cared to go beyond that point or
have ever heard the interesting story
Of the ancestral Puritan Lincoln. who
left bingham, England, in 1633-35-37,
led by the minister of historic St. An
drews. The band journeyed to Mas
sachusetts. and a few years after the
arrival of the Mayfiower Pilgrims
86Hn9ed their colony. 5t,~.
Upon this exodus Cotton Mather
makes this quaint comment:
This light tindep-ndercy). having been by
thu ersecutins prelates put under a bushel
WIN how. by the good Providence Of heaven.
fetched away into New England. where the
good people Of our bingham did rejoice In the
light for . season.
The 1870 families who thus rescued
the light of religious liberty from it's
bushel extinction left the comfort Of
well established homes for the from
tier edge of an untried continent be-
cause they glimpsed the dawn of the
government described by the fourth
of Samuel Lincoln as