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

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.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

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

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.