Identifier: abrahamlincoln01sumn (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sumner, G. Lynn (Guy Lynn), 1885-1952
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: (Scranton, Pa., R. E. Prendergast, printer)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN ADDRESS BY g/IyNN SUMNER LINCOLN DAY KiWANis Club of Scranton, Pa. February 15, 1922 COMPLIMENTS OF ROBERT E. PRENDERGAST C COPYRIGHT. 1922. BY G LYNN SUMNER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED .8 ©C1AG73456 m 22 l^22
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FROM THE ORIGINAL ETCHING BY EARL HORTEROWNED AND COPYRIGHTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS Abraham Lincoln F you stand upon the top of a great moun-tain and look about you, you will seerugged rocks, and yawning crevices, andprecipitous slopes, and on every hand peaks oflesser prominence, and you are conscious onlythat the height upon which you stand is part ofa great upheaval in natures architecture. But as 5ou descend the mountain and drawaway from it, the rocks and crevices so promi-nent when close at hand now soften into dimdetails, and as you go on across the valley or theplain mile after mile and look back, the moun-tain on which you stood a little while beforestands out in majestic splendor and the lesserpeaks become but a setting that adds by con-trast to the inspiring height that now over-shadows and out-glories all. Just so has the passing of the years addedglory to the greatness of Lincoln. And so havethe men among whom he moved in that turbu-lent period of thabrahamlincoln01sumn

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