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LINCOLN ROOM 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 LIBRARY 
 
 EMORIAL 
 
 the Class of 1901 
 
 founded by 
 
 HARLAN HOYT HORNER 
 
 and 
 
 HENRIETTA CALHOUN HORNER 
 
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 A Message From 
 
 Abraham Lincoln 
 
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 J. C. MINER 
 
 Chicago, Christmas, 1941 
 
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 HE BELLS OF CHRISTMAS RING AGAIN. NOT 
 ALL : 3E SPEAR THRUSTS OF NEARLY TWO THOU- 
 SAND YEARS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO KILL CHRISTIAN- 
 ITY OR THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. IT LIES DEEP IN HU- 
 MAN HEARTS. MANKINDS' CATHEDRALS OF HOPE, 
 FAITH, PEACE, AND GOOD WILL SHALL RISE WITH 
 EVER HIGHER SPIRES LONG AFTER THE LAST CON- 
 QUEROR IS DUST. THE OLD, LOVED WORDS, "A MERRY 
 CHRISTMAS TO YOU;' STILL RING CLEAR ABOVE THE 
 TEMPORARY TUMULT OF WAR AND ERASE, FOR THE 
 MOMENT, THE IMPRINT OF SORROW 
 
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 TODAY, IN A WAR MAD WORLD, IN OUR NATION'S 
 
 HOUR OF DECISION, WE TURN TO OTHER TIMES AND 
 
 OTHER MEN, AND FIND GUIDANCE IN THE WORDS OF 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
 
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 An Excerpt from The Second Inaugural Address by 
 
 Abraham Cincoln 
 
 MARCH FOURTH, MDCCCLV 
 
 ONDLY DO WE HOPE, FERVANTLY DO WE PRAY, 
 THAT THIS MIGHTY SCOURGE OF WAR MAY SPEEDILY 
 PASS AWAY. YET, IF GOD WILLS THAT IT CONTINUE UNTIL 
 ALL THE WEALTH PILED BY THE BONDSMAN'S TWO HUN- 
 DRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF UNREQUITED TOIL SHALL BE 
 SUNK, AND UNTIL EVERY DROP OF BLOOD DRAWN WITH 
 THE LASH SHALL BE PAID BY ANOTHER DRAWN BY THE 
 SWORD, AS WAS SAID THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, SO 
 STILL IT MUST BE SAID, THAT THE JUDGMENTS OF THE 
 LORD ARE TRUE, AND RIGHTEOUS ALTOGETHER 
 
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 WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE, WITH CHARITY FOR ALL, 
 WITH FIRMNESS IN THE RIGHT, AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE 
 THE RIGHT, LET US FINISH THE WORK WE ARE IN, TO 
 BIND UP THE NATION'S WOUNDS, TO CARE FOR HIM WHO 
 SHALL HAVE BORNE THE BATTLE, AND FOR HIS WIDOW, 
 AND HIS ORPHANS, TO DO ALL WHICH MAY ACHIEVE 
 AND CHERISH A JUST AND LASTING PEACE AMONG 
 OURSELVES AND WITH ALL NATIONS 
 
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