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t B*e Rev. Robert Wesley Peach
I Preaches Moving Sermon
to G. A. R. Veterans.
IN UNIFORM, POSTS
jf|| MARCH TO THE CHURCH
? High Tributes Are Paid to Mar
tyred President, Born
; 100 Years Ago.
,wm -
•Abraham Lincoln" w«* the subject
In many pulpit* In Ncwurk
These were the first nri
In commemoration of the ItMMli
of the hlrth of the grral
which m'cura Friday, and on
nearly every church iu the
THU have devoted a day to the ro
of Lincoln?* greatness.
1 Army post in the city
ed, in uniform and with
Emanuel Reformed Epis
Broad street and Fourth
day, when the Rev. Rob
^ach spoke on “Abraham
t Heart. Patriot, Deliv
’ All of the ladles’ aux
dso represented. The G.
arched to yie church, led
at No. 11. Others at the
n services were Garfield
Tucker Post. Phil Sheri -
cub L. Ward Camp, Sous
Hexaraer Post; Kearny
of the G. A. R.; Garfield
y, Phil Sheridan Circle,
Auxiliary, Hexamer Post
tery B Circle, Ladles of
nd veterans not affiliated
be local posts. The vet
ir friends came near oc
seat in the church. The
jeorated with flags, and
most inspiring.
Tribute to Lincoln.
B First reading a number of selections
W°m the writln®s ot Lincoln, exhibit
* 'H *iig the qualities upon which he was
to enlarge, the speaker said:
I "One of his biographers has said that
gKLineoln was great as a statesman, as a
•diplomatist, as a military strategist, as
■ » master of English prose, as a man of
R faith in G-od, He was widely recognized
B os a great lawyer, and there were not
■ wanting distinguished contemporaries
P to rank hha with Webster and Clay as
>!y an orator. He was called philanthro
1 pist, conqueror, restorer, liberator,
martyr. His great title is emancipator
“When he died the pulpit of our whole
B country preached his funeral sermon.
JjH A cursory scanning of the sermons de
J livered in New York and Boston alone
jp? shows that nearly the whole English
r vocabulary descriptive of manly and
Christian virtues was applied to him.
k But certain words recur in nearly all
*J these sermons, calling' Lincoln honest,
H| wise, kind, gentle, simple, patient, good,
Brest, noble, upright, firm faithful, lov
ing, tender, Just, merciful, generous,
magnanimous, humble, meek, forgiving,
conscientious, pure, true, sincere.
"He who would speak of the many
sided Lincoln must therefore choose a
f limited field of survey. I speak first
i M of
rV Abraham Lincoln, great heart.
Read his letter of anguished sympathy
to Joshua Speed over the latter's sor
rows in love, if you W'ould see an early
evidence of his great-heartedness.
What was it that made Lincoln volun
teer to the widow of his friend Arm
strong to defend her son, whom lie
cleared from the charge of murder?
Why did he set apart hours of his
precious time in the White House to
hearing the appeals of the poor, the
oppressed, the repentant? What caused
him to write letters of consolation to
bereft parents, such, as culminated in
that surpassing message of condolence
to Mrs. Bixby, whose five sons had died
for their country? Let me quote the
closing words: T pray that our Heav
enly Father may assuage -the anguish
of your bereavement, and leave you
only the cherished memory of the loved
end lost, and the solemn pride that
must be yours to have laid so costly a
sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.'
IIow was it that the great President
could hardly forbear pardoning sol
diers condemned for desertion or other
dereliction, and as is the case ol' Wlll
•'M lern Scott, the sleeping sentinel, return
to his company one who was never en
n rolled in any post of the Grand Army
of the Republic, because he poined the
great host of those who died for the
flag?
"What drove the weary man upon his
return from Richmond to visit every
one of the 6,000 wounded soldiers in City
Point Hospital, grasping those hands
f that had escaped, and laying his hand
Lovingly upon the heads of patriots
Whom battle’s carnage had mutilated?
"The great heart, oh, the great heart
of Abraham Lincoln. For it we love I
him beyond all other's sons of men.
“Abraham Lincoln, patriot. His
patriotism was pure gold, in quality
, and intensity not less than Washing
ton's. Nor was It of the kind that finds
Its chief expression In ornate rhetoric.
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Remember this remedy contains no sal
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othftr harmful drugs. It la put up under
the guarantee of the Pure Food and Drug
Act. ,
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Ft was fundamental. When yet In his
twenties Lincoln laid down the prin
ciple* that every citizen must obey the
taws, even bad laws, until they were
repealed.
“So. hating slavery as strongly as
Phillips or Garrison, he stood for pro
tecting it within its constitutionally
guaranteed boundaries until military
necessity In the preservation of the
Union gave him the right to emancipate
a race.
“So Lincoln's patriotism made of him
a deliverer. He was more than the
great emancipator. His whole object
was the preservation of the Union. He
believed that the cause of civil aud re
ligious liberty would be set back cen
turies by the disruption of our Union.
“He- held that tyranny would rear
its head in all lands by the defeat of
the government of, for and by the peo
ple. His victory, made possible by
loyal hearts and swords, has given to
us today the strongest and best gov
ernment in the world. Because he was
a great heart and because he was a
deliverer, we love him above all other
of the sons of men.”
The preacher closed with a glowing
trihute to Lincoln as a prophet of God,
showing how simple and sublime was
the great President’s faith, and how in
all his deeds and words he stood for
righteousness.
The next three Sunday evenings Dr.
Peach wil preach on Lincoln's teach
ings concerning the sovereignty of God.
concerning prayer and concerning the
i Holy Bible.
bis Cite Our model,
Saps Reu. b. IR. mellen
A sermon on Lincoln was delivered
by the Rev. Henry Merle Mellen last
night in Christ Reformed Church, his
text being: Isaiah, 62:12: “Thou shalt
be called sought out.” He said in
part:
”If ever there will be a day when the
throbbing heart of our race will ex
press itself in genuine accents that day
will be the centennial birthday of
Abraham Lincoln. The world has many
shrines of glorious manhood. It has
none greater than that of the great
emancipator. Minds of all grades and
calibre think of him with reverence.
“Mr. Emerson said that if ever a
man was fairly tested Abraham Lin
coln was. His outer course of progress
was wretched In the extreme. H1b
inner development was not brilliant,
although it was certain and sure. He
himself summed up his life In a line
from ’Gray’s Elegy:’ ‘The short and
simple annals of the poor.’
"Reared with men of low degree and
lives that breathed the common places
he never attained outward grace of
manners. As was said of the Man of
Sorrows it can be said in some degree
of Abraham Lincoln: 'He hath no
form nor comeliness and when we shall
see hint there is no beauty that we
should desire him.' Intellectually he
was not brilliant so much as he pos
sessed a wonderful God-given common
sense; morally he was sublime; spir
itually he was as receptive as a little
child.
"He was hurled into an arena of
superhuman Issues, where his figure
became the rallying point of national
fortitude.
“He was a man, by the grace of
God. the length and breadth and
height of whose life were equal. He
was a philosopher equal w’ith Aurelius
Epictetus. Aesop and La Fontaine,
with the additional ’plus' of heart. His
life will he our best inspiration so long
as truth goes marching on."
£toe Ctke Cincoln,
Dr. D. W. £u$k Drgcs
In the .sixth Presbyterian Church
yesterday the Rev. Dr. Davis W. Lusk
drew an object-lesson from Abraham
Lincoln, exhorting his flock to live as
did the great President. He said in
part:
"The story of his life can be sum
marized in a few brief sentences. Born
in poverty, less than one year of his
boyhood spent in the rudimentary
studies of a rustic school, at the age
of 19 a deckhand on a. Mississippi flat
boat; l hen a clerk in a country store,
next a law student, with but a few
hooks; then a member of the State Leg
islature. We hear of him in Congress,
introducing a oill to abolisli slavery in
the District of Columbia; then waging
the most protracted and brilliant de
bate that our politics has ever known;
in 1860 borne triumphantly into the
Presidency, and after four tempestuous
years, in the hour of victory, trans
lated by a bloody martyrdom to his
c town of glory, with four million
broken shackles in his good right hand.
"Me understand him better than did
the men of his time. Men who are
greater than their age must wait for
vindication and appreciation.
“There are two reasons why Lincoln
is remembered. He was good and he
was great."
“We Reed Another
£incoln“”Reo. B. R. Rose
"There is grave danger in the Jap
anese question now agitating the Pa
cific coast," said the Rev. Henry R.
Rose, preaching on Lincoln in the
Church of the Redeemer yesterday.
"The racial trouble appears to be near
ing a crisis that may involve this coun
try in a terrible war, and there is
needPd another Lincoln to arise to the
occasion either by preventing such a
great calamity, or to lead the people
of this country if a war should oc
cur."
Mr. Rose, speaking upon "The Se
cret of Lincoln's Rise," Held that all the
success that Lincoln achieved was
through his habits of study. "He was
not only a reader," said the pastor,
"but he.literally devoured a’’ the read
ing matter placed before him, and used
the same methods of studying to suc
ceed when he entered politics. His
success can he ascribed to no other
reason than that he at all times was a
close student of the conditions that sur
rounded hint and probed them to the
tfottom.”
RAILWAY EMPLOYEES' BALL.
The annual entertainment and ball
under the auspices of the North
Jersey Street Railway Employees'
Benevolent Association will be held
at the Krueger Auditorium to
night. The entertainment will consist
:>f a vaudeville program by professional
talent. A varied program has been
arranged by the committee, wtio have
left nothing undone to make the affair
one of the most successful in the his
ixicV of the association.
ON ANNIVERSARY
TELLS HISTORY OF
ST. PAULS CHURCH
The Rev. William C. O’Donnell
Traces Growth of Congre
gation for 56 Years.
In connection with the fifty-sixth an
niversary of St. Paul's M. E. Church
yesterday the pastor, the. Rev. William
C. O’Donnell, Jr., preached an eloquent,
sermon on the topic, “Lights Along the
Way.” He traced the history of tho
church from its infancy, saying in part:
“On May 7, 1852, a half dozen mem
bers of tho Franklin Street Church
agreed on the general proposition of
forming a new church. The formal or
ganization of the Broad Street Church
took place on February 9, 1853. This is
the date we commemorate in our anni
versary. In 1865 the name was changed
to ‘St. Paul’s.’ The first sermon was
preached on February 20, 1853. by!
Chauncey Shaffer, a distinguished law-|
yer and local preacher of New York, j
from the text Hebrew xiii, 8: ‘Jesus\
Christ the same, yesterday, today and
forever.* The Rev. W. P. Corbit was
appointed the first pastor, the present
pastor being the twenty-second in suc
cession. Tho chapel was opened on De
cember 29, 1853, and the corner-stone of
t he church was laid October 26, 1854. |
The building was dedicated February
22. 1856. The parsonage was built in
1867.
“One —thousand eight hundred and
ninety-three Is memorable as the date of
the completion of extensive alterations,
artistic decorations and the canceling
of the debt. Today our house of wor
ship is among the most beautiful in
Methodism, without indebtedness and
without endowment. Among the work- ,
ers of the earliest days were Elias,
Francis, the first superintendent of the
Sunday school, and in whose home, at
54 Court street, tho church was organ- !
ized: Cornelius Walsh, first president of.
the board of trustees, member of the
building committee and generous donor |
whose munificence made possible the
I erection of the handsome structure; j
Henry Miller, known for years as the
‘Model Treasurer,’ a rare distinction f
and richly merited."
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JERSEY VETERANS
FULL OF STORIES
OF ABE LINCOLN
i Many of the G. A. R. Had Per
sonal Meetings With
the Martyr.
Many old Newark and Essex county I
veterans of the Civil War saw Abra- i
ham Lincoln, the first martyr Presi- !
dent, on horse back at army reviews j
before or after a big battle, and a
few had the honor of being admitted
to the old White House, where he shook
hands and said kind words to them, es
pecially if they were very young; as a
great many of the soldier boys in the
New Jersey regiments were. At least
two Newark women had an interview
with Mr. Lincoln in the White House,
pleading for a son and brother, and
were given a reprieve for the soldier!
boy. but the reprieve came too late. j
David D. Keefe, an enthusiastic!
Grand Army man, enlisted in the Sev
enth Regiment, New Jersey Infantry,
when he was in his teens. He was
badly wounded in one arm at one o£i
tiie batles at Petersburg, and al ter his |
wound was dressed on the field lie wasi
sent to Washington to one of tile fiospi- i
tais in that city. When he was per- j
mltted to go out of doors he relsoh -
ed to call at the White House and, Ifj
possible, see the President. Ills arm;
was in a sling a.nd this and his youth *
gained him admission to the building I
and the room in which the tali, gaunt i
and homely Lincoln was receiving olfi- i
cers and privates, shaking hands and
addresing kind words to each.
"When my turn came to meet the
President,” said Mr. Keefe. “I was
nervous and didn’t know what to say
or do. for I was only a boy then, under
twenty years of age. Suddenly a large
and strong hand seized my well hand
in a strong grip, a grip that told me
there was a great deal of feeling in It,
probably because my arm was in a
sling, for I had hem d that Mr. Lincoln
had great sympathy and admiration for
soldier boys who had been wounded in \
battle in defense of our Union.
"Looking up I saw above me a rugged |
face with high cheek bones, a sad and j
troubled face, but the black eyes had a
great deal of human sympathy in ;
them, and his voice was low and kind- !
ly. He asked my age. what regiment
I was in. where I had been wounded,
what hospital 1 was treated in. and ifl
was well cared for there. 1 stammered '
my replies to 111? questions at first, for
prominent men were in the room, and '
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Free to Our Patrons
Splfndidly lithocraphed portraits of Abraham Lincoln, reproduced from
clay models, with beautiful gray and gold border effect, fine for home or
offices, will be distributed free to our patrons beginning todav, a\ the
Tabard Inn Station, Soda Fountain and Toy Store.
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IS Carloads Bedroom Furniture
Already Here—More Coming Every Day From the Factory—
All Mow Being Sold at Jtist Half Price
Really the Biggest Furniture Event Mewark
Has Ever Known
J5* atJe *?. bu.y sPjendid new furniture—fresh from the factory—made of excellent woods, put together by
JL skilled cabinet makers, finished as tho done for the most valued patron on a special order—at just half the
usual selling price—is surely an opportunity that hundreds will not let pass unaccepted. Such a sale is this
one of brand new Bedroom Furniture which we bought at half its worth, clearing the whole factory. Carloads are
coming every day. keeping the assortment full and satisfying. If you have a present need of bedroom furniture, if
you will likely want a bedstead or a dresser or a chiffonier any time soon, now is obviously the time to buy. Board
ing hoyse and hotel keepers are especially advised to participate in the savings made possible by this sale.
Thisvbedroom furniture at half price can be bought a: any of our other furniture, on our popular easy-payment
Club Plan, maiung this sale doubly attractive.
We cannot undertake to til! orders sent us by mail, vastly preferring to have you personally select such pieces as
you may desire, and thus avoid dissatisfaction.
. [Mahogany Finish 6>50
>rS Birdseye Maple > to
i Quartered Oak *25.50 TabIes
Values $33—$51
f Mahogany Finish $ 1 G>
Birdseye Maple L to BedrOOm
l Golden Oak *45.50 Suites
Values $36-$91
f Circassian Walnut 1*9 50
' Birdseye Maple > to
Mahogany Finish $22
Values $ 19-44
f Mahogany Finish '*42 :
Birdseye Maple h to
Quartered Oak !*92 ;
Values S84-S184
*30 to *74 Bedsteads j££S£3£h}* 15 to *37
The most extended description we might give you would not adequately convey the beauty
of these pieces. Those who are interested must see them to appreciate their worth.
I was bashful. But X was so kindly re
ceived by Mr. Lincoln that I was soon
at ease, especially as I noticed that he
was taking -a special Interest in me.
“It was In February, 1865, I had that
talk with Mr. Lincoln, and I Haw him
again at the White House when I was
told I would be transferred to the old
hospital near the Centre street railroad
station In Newark. I was in that hos
pital a few months later, on that fatal
Gcod Friday night, when our greut
President was shot in a box in Ford's
Theatre, Washington, by J. Wilkes
Booth, the actor. The news of Mr. Lin
coln's death was a very severe blow to
me, for I worshipped him because of
his great kindness to me fn the White
House each time I met him. On the
houses of the poorest as well as the
rich appeared pictures of Lincoln
draped in mourning cloth. The entire
city was in mourning. I remember also
when his body passed through our city
on the way to its final resting place.”
While members of Lincoln Post, G.
A. R.. w-ere assembling in their post
rooms last night to go to hear a Lin
coln sermon at Emmanuel Reformed
Church, the old veterans were asked
if there w’as a woman alive in Newark
or Essex county who had gone to
Washington to intercede with President
Lincoln for a young soldier. Several
said they recalled only one such in
stance. A mother and her daughter
w’ent to Washington, were admitted to
the White Holise, and pleaded with Mr.
Lincoln for a reprieve for an only son
and brother, a youth, who had been
condemned. He was on the march to
Petersburg at the time. Ho was a
private in a New Jersey regiment ’n .
General Slocum's corps
“We saw the New’ Jersey boy and .
mother soldier about 9 o'clock one i
morning, the regiments of Slocum's i
corps being halted on the march to wit - ]
ness the tragedy. Not long after the!
shooting the new s spread among the:
regiments that General Slocum, who j
was a kind officer, was nearly distract
'd at his headquarters, because he had I
received, too late, notice that President |
Lincoln had given the mother and sister j
if our New Jersey boy a reprieve for •
the lad. ■
“It was that fiend. Secretary of War!
Stanton.” a white-haired veteran broke I
In. "who was to blame for the boy be-!
ing shot, for he had ordered the gen- j
?rals to have men shot promptly, at the!
time set and not to d lay for anybody.
“Afterward we heard that the mother
md the sister of the boy soldier had I
pleaded so successfully for his life Ini
:he White House that Mr. Lincoln made i
md signed a reprieve. But. just as he
old his secretary to send with all haste]
0 General Slocum the information that;
1 reprieve had been granted, news came]
rom General Slocum that the boy ha'd j
>een shot. The mother and daughter.,'
ve heard, fainted, and Mr. Lincoln!
vas so affected that after comforting,
he afflicted women, he Withdrew’ to'
Ms private apartments and did not ap
icar in his office until the next day.
le was a very kind man."
None of the veterans could recall the
lame of the hoy soldier, hut all remera
tered the case.
1USEUM OF ART FOR.
NEWARK !S PLANNED.
layor Haussling Among Those
Who Are Interested.
A movement has been started to i
stablish in this city a museum of art. I
nterested in it are Mayor Haussling,
ohn C. Dana, librarian of the Free!
’ublic Library; the trustees of the!
brary and William Pennington, presi- i
ent of the Common Council, it is I
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at the library, shall form the nucleus
3f a -collection for the proposed
museum.
An opinion on the feasibility of the
plan was requested recently from Sir
Caspar Purdon Clarke, director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, He
rlsited this city and inspected the
Rockwell collection. In a report to the
city librarian he says:
“If you decide that it is wise to pur
chase this collection of art objects, we
suggest an organization similar to that
tf the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Phis organization would be independent
if the board of trustees of the library,
■tome of the officials of the city should
'io ex-officio members or the board of
lircctors. Tin- art museum hoard could
nake arrangements with Lbe trustees
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| of lhe library whereby this collection,
j and the additions made to it, could be
I housed in the library and there dis
played for public view for several years
to come, until it becomes so large as to
demand a home of its own.”
CYGNET CLUB THEATRE PARTY.
The Cygnet Club, which has head- [
| quarters at 20S Ferry street, will 1- av,
its monthly theatre party tonight at j
Proctor’s, to be followed by a din- j
ner at Hooper's restaurant. The officers .
of the club are: Michael Celias, presi
dent; Hugo Becker,- vice-president;
Frank V.’arhoiick. treasurer: Charles1
tVoech. sect clary, and .Course Voi h, j
sergeant-at-ar ms.
BAND IN NEW YORK TO
CONTAIN 20J PIECES.
StKVV YORK. Fell. S.—The largost
band which has aver been assembled
will give a concert In tho Twenty-see
ond Regiment Armory on March 7, *
Tin idea was conceiv'd .hi iiw.bdlfid- *
master of tho regim*nt„ wtn* simttartoe*
thin the organization wiU be made up ;
as follows: Fifty-throe clarionets,
fourteen flutes and piccolos, ten oboes,
eight bassoons, twenty comets, four
Huegel horns, eight trumpets, twenty
four French horns, barytones,
twenty trombones. twaj^islour
butts viols, tbroo bass drums. five snore \
•lrum.- two sets ni ty.ptp-4oi.'Jgfct t»g»
harps. _
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