We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.