clusions when they have to pass upon the Negro. It is interesting in the light of this to know what Mr. Lincoln thought and felt regarding these questions. His first impulse was that all Negroes should be sent to Africa. He dismissed this idea, however, as impracticable on the ground that the financial condition of the country would not allow it; nor could the Negro withstand the ravages of the climate, want and destitution on the Liberian coast. He denied political and social equality to the Negro on the ground that the great physical differences between the races would never allow it. He did not appeal to reason and judgment to justify his denial, but turned to universal feeling which, he said, would never permit.

Mr. Lincoln was willing, however, to grant the rights designated in the Declaration of Independence; the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These natural rights involve in their significance amongst other things

the "open door of opportunity" which President-elect Taft and President Roosevelt are anxious shall be granted to the Negro. Thus what Mr. Lincoln. would grant to the Negro is much more valuable than what he would deny him. If these natural rights could be secured in their full significance and ideality, the Negro's hopes and aspirations would be realized. It is doubtful, however, whether these natural rights can ever be fully secured and guarded without the possession at the same time of political rights.

At the time when the Negro was held in disfavor, when he was ignorant and showed little promise of mental and moral capabilities and when Mr. Lincoln had political aspirations and had to exercise caution in what he said and did, it must have taken good courage and deep convictions to express ideas that were held in derision and contempt by the majority of white men.

TAFT'S ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN William Howard Taft, speaking on "Lincoln," October 7th, on the Knox College Campus, in Galesburg, at the exact spot where Lincoln and Douglas engaged in debate fifty years ago, said: "Certain it is that we have never had a man in public life whose sense of duty was stronger, whose bearing toward those with whom he came in contact, whether his friends or political opponents, was characterized by a greater sense of fairness than Abraham Lincoln. We have never had a man in public life

who took upon himself uncomplainingly the woes of the nation and suffered in his soul from the weight of them as he did. We have never had a man in our history who had such a mixture of farsightedness, of understanding of the people, of common sense, of high sense of duty, of power of inexorable logic and of confidence in the goodness of God, in working out a righteous result as this great product of the soil of Kentucky and Illinois."

THE ONE HUNDREDTH BIRTH YEAR OF

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Lincoln Memorial Offering

TO THE

AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION

To Complete the Work which Abraham Lincoln began.

Lincoln Memorial Sunday, February 7, '09

To whom does it appeal? To all the patriotic young people of our denomination as they observe this Sunday.

To Grand Army Posts, Daughters of the Revolution and similar' organizations.

To Individual Citizens it appeals in behalf of

CHRISTIAN PATRIOTISM.

REMEMBER THE A. M. A. ON LINCOLN SUNDAY

FEBRUARY SEVENTH.

RECEIPTS FOR DECEMBER, 1908

THE DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND
For Colored People

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