in a letter addressed to the Boston club, who had invited him to celebrate with them the birthday of Jefferson. He could not go, but in his letter he commended Jefferson's teaching and praised him. His eulogy of Jefferson was not surpassed by any other eulogy that has been pronounced on Jefferson. In his letter he said that his party believed in the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict, it believed in the man before the dollar.

My friends, that was not a transient sentiment. That was not a truth applicable to a particular time. You may go back in history as far as you will. You may look forward into the future as far as you will, and you will find that there never was a great abuse and never will be a great abuse, that did not grow or will not grow, out of the inversion of the proper relation between man and money.

Lincoln saw that man came first and money afterwards. He planted himself on that doctrine. That doctrine is the solid rock, and because he knew that he could not be mistaken, he was not afraid to stand there and face anybody who opposed him.

And to my mind, Lincoln illustrates the power of truth speaking through human lips. He illustrates the power of truth as it inspires courage, for his moral courage was as superb as the world has ever known. He dared to do what he thought he ought to do. He dared to say what he thought ought to be said, and he asked not how many or how few were ready to stand and take their share with him.

Why has his fame grown? Because the truth for which he stood has grown; and I cannot better conclude my brief speech to you than to say that Lincoln, in his speech, and in his career, and in his fame, illustrates again that humble bible truth that "One with God shall chase a thousand and two shall put ten thousand to flight."

AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH

At 10:30 a. m. religious services were held at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church, formerly the First Presbyterian church, which was Mr. Lincoln's place of worship from 1849 to 1861. Mr. Lincoln's old pew, marked by an appropriate bronze tablet, is still in use. The following address by Dr. T. D. Logan, was the principal feature of this meeting.

REV. THOMAS D. LOGAN, D. D.

Lincoln as a Worshiper

It was a cruel tyrant, a heartless slave-driver, who said to Israel in bondage: "Ye are idle, ye are idle; therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord." To those who know not God, and love not their fellowmen, the worship of God seems idleness. Yet it is as natural for man to worship as to breathe. Conscious of his limitations, and recognizing his dependence upon an Infinite Being, the soul of man craves fellowship with that Being, and reaches out longingly towards Him. Thomas Carlyle says: "It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. Of a man or of a nation we inquire, therefore, first of all, what religion they had? Answering of this question is giving us the soul of the history of the man or nation. The thoughts they had were the parents of the actions they did; their feelings were parents of their thoughts; it was the unseen and spiritual in them that determined the outward and actual-their religion, as I say, was the great fact about them." Worship is worthship-an acknowledgment of worth. Religious worship is the acknowledgment of Supreme Worth. It is a reverential upward look, the pouring out of the soul to God, and if sincere it commands respect, even when one knows that the worshiper has very imperfect ideas of the Being whom he addresses. The Puritan may be unimpressed with the grandeur of the vast cathedral, and to one who has been trained in the simpler forms of worship, the more elaborate ritual may be a hindrance rather than a help in his devotion; but when he sees the humble peasant kneel before the altar, he recognizes at once a fellow-worshiper. One is ready to bare not only his head but his feet, as he enters the Mohammedan mosque, because it is the place where his fellowman bows before the Infinite. Even the heathen, who in his blindness bows down to wood and stone, is entitled to our sympathetic regard, because according to his light and knowledge, he worships as well as he knows how; and the wise missionary builds his instruction upon this reverence for the