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RKV. HEXRY FOWLER.

PASTOR OF THE CKNTRAL I-RKSBYTERI AN CHURCH.

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AUBURN, N. Y., APRIL 23, 1865.

BY

EEY. HEITET EOWLEE,

PASTOR OF THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

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DISOOUESE.

"And tee Angei. of the Lord called unto Abraham oct or
Heaven the second time." Genesis sxii, 15.
In the midst of unequaled rejoicings, we are called to unequaled
sorrow. The certainty of Peace was revealed to us as a bright vision ;
peace won by victories, not bought by conditions ; peace the seal of
an indissoluble Union, not the treacherous truce of independent sov
ereignties ; peace the virtuous bride of liberty, not the mistress of
oppression; peace, " Whole as th« marble, founded as tlie rock.
As broad and general as tile casing air,"
in fulfilment of the prophecy, " when mercy and truth meet together,
righteousness and peace kiss each other." Exalted by the certainty,
we raised our hallelujahs till they touched the skies. Their echo
but met our ears, when the words of a grimmer prophet are fulfilled :
" Our feasts are turned into mourning, and our songs into lamenta
tions, as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter
day.'' This country never saw such grief as marked the Ides of
April, 1865, when all men lifted up their voices and wept, and the
Rachels refused to be comforted. That grief abides to-day. The

4 CHAEACTER AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Sabbath has tempered the sorrow with its teachings of faith. The
dismay which follows a first outburst of ambushed evil is past ; anxi
ety felt for the Republic is allayed, as we observe the unmoved stability
of afiairs ; but the mourning continues, and we gather now to express
and explain our bereavement, and to learn from each others' hearts the
lesson of the hour. " FATHER ABRAHAM."
Our grief is both national and personal. When the President of
these United States was murdered, the shot was aimed at our Country.
The Republic shivered with the shock ; each American seemed called
to avenge the blood ; for, when Abraham Lincoln fell, " then you and
I and all of us fell down, whilst bloody treason flourished over us."
But our grief has its tenderer as well as sterner aspect, its personal
as well as its national elements. The Filial has taken possession of
our souls. Not only had the President's administration constructed,
in the heart of the nation, the confidence which upbuilds between
honest citizens, but his character had won the peculiar trust felt by
the son for a wise and good father. We were not afraid to ask his
reasons, and we were willing that he should act without giving rea
sons. We received his explanations, and with faith alike unquestion
ing, we accepted his reticence. His wisdom seemed to us great, but
not remote ; his greatness upbore all the nation with him as one
family. He was, and always will be — " Father Abraham."
HIS MORAL QUALITIES.
In discussing his character, I do not dwell upon the attainment of
the Presidential chair, from humblest beginnings, because in this,
Abraham Lincoln is not remarkable. It is our Institutions which
are remarkable. Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Millard Fillmore,
and now Andrew Johnson, have become Presidents, though begin
ning life in straitened circumstances ; while Henry Clay and Daniel
Webster, with similar biography, have been greater than Presidents.
I ask you to consider the honesty of Abraham Lincoln, although you

CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 5
have mentioned it a thousand times, for it is too remarkable a quality
ever to be passed in silence. It was a grace of singular virtue, and
rare attainment. It not only essayed to speak the truth, but it succeed
ed in speaking the truth. Its statements were free from perplexing
adumbras, and from Janus-faced meanings. You could always tell
what Abraham Lincoln meant to say. And he not only spoke, but
acted honestly. His words and his deeds were one. The grand unity
of truth wrought them into its clear consistency. Few men have
lived who held over the people, by simple integrity, such prevaihng
power, or demonstrated to the world with such conclusiveness, the
transcendent scope of uprightness. While conceding that in common
life, "honesty is the best policy," some have imagined that on the
broader field of State or National politics, success could be best at
tained by the subtlety of the politician, or the arts of the demagogue.
But this life tells us that integrity wins, when artifice fails. The Pres
ident did not waste the forces of intellect in cunning devices ; he was
not wearying himself with anxieties about the consistency of his
record ; he trusted the Truth, and she took care of him ; her way
out of political labyrinths was short. Thus it was that in the lists of
diplomacy the President was never ensnared, confused, or doubled on.
He was more than a match for professional partisans, and for Southern
leaders, trained in the dialectics of the Conclave. I do not affirm that
honesty was the only source of this superiority ; we must give full
credit to a sterling sense ; but honesty was the main, as it was the
moral, head of that fountain of power which enabled Abraham Lin
coln to govern the Republic in these years of trial. A trait as diffi
cult of retention as of attainment, it was held by him sacred to the
last, a lustrous jewel ; and as the American people cherish his mem
ory, they will repeat to coming generations the familiar title which
fembalms his honesty.
With this upright speech was united
THE HEARING EAR.
The President listened to all comers. He exercised a patient absorp-

6 CHARACTER- AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
tion. His long suflFering was never exhausted. With equipoise he
listened not only to all statements of each applicant, but to each state
ment of all apphcants. He entertained and considered many sides.
Coming into the Presidential chair without investiture of a clique, he
held himself untrammeled by exclusiveness or even partizanship.
He was accessible to any and all the people ; border state men, peace
men, war men, conservatives, radicals, religious men, practical men,
theorists, were received, and their arguments weighed. His greatness
lay in this all-comprehensive receptivity. He belittled nothing, ig
nored nothing ; he had that " wisdom from above which is easy to be
entreated, gentle, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." No
ruler has lived who kept his ear closer to the motions of the popular
thought, and to the pulsations of the American heart. The voice of
the people penetrated his soul with a sacred welcome only second to
the voice of God.
Accompanying this trait appears
HIS OLEMENCT.
He was so long-sufiering, so forgiving, "not willing that any should
perish." The governmental power of pardon was used more readily
than the governmental power of execution. He sought to reprieve,
rather than to condemn. Mercy overruled justice. He was the fath
er rather than the judge of the people. He went to meet the prodi
gal while he was yet a great way off, sometimes while unrepentant.
We have blamed him for this. We have been anxious at what seem
ed an undue leniency which encouraged crime. But so he was ! and
now that his work is done, we discern, not without satisfaction, the
handwriting of history, as it inscribes mercy in crowning letters above
the record of his life. No man living could have won, or would have
won, from the American people, easier terms for traitors. To gratify
his purpose of mercy, we would have sacrificed our sense of justice ;
and rebellion revealed the depths of its malignity when it called
Abraham Lincoln a tyrant, and the height of its folly when it slew

CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 7
him. Tyrant ? Yes ! as Moses was a tyrant to the Israelites — as
David was a man of Belial to the cursing Shimei — as Paul was a rev
olutionist to the Ephesians — aye, as Jesus was a wine-bibber and a
publican to Scribes and Pharisees.
HIS intellectual QUALITIES. .
In thus analyzing the moral qualities of the President, I have
touched upon the intellectual characteristics, for moral and intellect-
ual, in his nature, interwove their threads as warp and woof. His
mind was honest as his heart. It received and discerned the truth.
It never failed, however slowly, at last to grasp and hold the essence
of the thing. Laying off on either side extraneous circumstances,
filtrating out the worthless, it gathered the gold, laboriously, yet com
pletely, in one nugget, which it held triumphantly up to the reflect
ing light. The President hesitated much before deciding, but none
after ; flexible then, immovable now ! This discerning power enabled
him, at crises in the war's history, to show the American people its
way of wisdom. You recall those letters, which he at intervals
wrote, of such singular insight, simplicity, and logic. He is the only
American statesman who could handle the edged tool of a letter
without self-injury ; but every one he wielded, carried conviction to
the nation. His choice of occasion was as felicitous as his selection
of truth. He never wrote too soon ; the impatient now say that he
wrote soon enough. As upon a flood tide, even whose ebb-waves
each marked higher upon the measure of his influence, did he launch
the ballasted vessel, freighted with the precious cargo of his thought.
The President was remarkable for not attempting to solve problems
sooner than Providence demanded. He made time his right hand
ally, neither wasting nor crowding her ; he made no drafts on the
Future ; he lived morally and intellectually, as it were, within his
income ; he made no promises for next year ; the work of each day
was all-sufficient, and he kept himself sufficient for the work. So he
toiled on, industriously, temperately, never flagging and never hurry
ing, beneath the mighty burden which God had Md, unasked, upon

8 CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
his shoulders. Holding himself as the servant of the people, and the
instrument of the Most High, he waited with docility on the logic of
events, as um'olling the decrees of God.
HIS STORIES.
To relieve himself in the midst of labors which could not stop, be
used, with admirable success, a rare gift of humor and illustration.
He answered manifold applications with as many stories. He replied
to unsound arguments with jokes which dissolved them. He cheered
others and himself with anecdotes. He met the incessant demands
of society with reminiscences. He never could have lived through
the four years, if God had not endowed him with this mental idiosyn-
cracy. No public man resembles him in this. Many have regarded
his "little stories" as a littleness, but history will treasure them as
handmaidens of greatness, more helpful than games, more instructive
than songs. The clearer we apprehend the present era, the plainer
we may see the need of just such men at the head of affairs. If he
had been sedate like Washington, or partisan like Jefferson, or opin-
ionative like Adams, or imperious like Jackson, or diplomatic like
Van Buren, or impatient hke Taylor, could he have saved the American
Union ? May we not conclude that, in a superior sense, to meet an
extraordinary emergency, he was called to his work "by the angel of
the Lord," as Abraham, and Moses, and David were called in old
times, as Cromwell, and William of Orange, and Washington in
modern times, whose calling is seen through the special traits with
which God endowed them, and the controlling circumstances with
which Providence invested them ?
I am not willing to be borne by the occasion beyond the calm
judgment of history, and yet I do not hesitate to declare that the
people yet have not appreciated the greatness of Abraham Lincoln.
So modest, so unassuming, in manner so unaffected, never elated by
his elevation, never imperious because of his re-election, ever so re
spectful to the opinions of others, without dogmatism, pride or vanity,
— these undoubted evidences of greatness have veiled rather than re-

CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 9
vealed the greatness itself, as at noonday grateful clouds hide the
power that produced them. But as future generations review the
gentleness, honesty, calmness, wisdom, endurance and buoyancy of
the man ; as they note the conclusive fact, that the more we knew,
the more we trusted him, that the heavier grew his burdens, the
stronger grew the man, they will place him at the head of the nine
teenth century. He issued from the Nazareth of Central Illinois,
and we esteemed him not. He has been our teacher and ruler for
four years, and we had come to realize that we could lean on him as
on no other man among twenty millions, who would stand so firm.
Suddenly he has been slain by those for whom he was pleading, not
only before Heaven, but before the American people, — "Forgive them,
for they know not what they do," — and we begin to suspect, we
begin to feel, that the truest of patriots has fallen, that the costliest
sacrifice has been laid upon the altar of country. He follows the
heroes of the war, glorifying each in this long line of martyrs to
Constitutional Liberty ; the greatest, and God grant the last !
BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE NEW.
The character with which Arthur Stanley invests the prophet Sam
uel, we may apply to the President. He was the mediator between
the old and the new. His two-sided sympathy enabled him to unite
the passing and the coming epoch, an epoch of surpassing perplexity,
transition, revolution. In every such passage of a nation, such a man
is needed. He may be misunderstood and misrepresented at the
time, attacked from both sides, charged with not going far enough,
and with going too far; charged with saying too much, and with say
ing too little ; yet he slowly, conscientiously works out the mighty
problem. Mr. Lincoln was not the founder of a new state of things,
like Washington. He was not the champion of the existing order of
things, like Webster. He stood between the old Union and the new,
between the past and future, between the dead and living, with that
sympathy for each, which, at such a period, is the best hope for any
permanent solution of the questions which torment it. His duty was

10 CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
carefully to distinguish between that which was temporal and that
which is eternal. He might have but little praise from partisans, but
he was the careful healer, binding up the wounds of the age in spite
of itself; the good surgeon, knitting together the dislocated bones of
the disjointed times. SYNOPSIS OP CHARACTER.
Sixteen months ago, I used the following language in addressing
you, which I repeat, in order to make an important addition : "The
explanation for the President's every act is this : He executes the will
of the people ; he represents a controlling majority. If he be slow,
it is because the people are slow. If he have done a foolish act, it
was the stupidity of the people which impelled it. His wisdom con
sists in carrying out the good sense of the nation. His growth
in political knowledge, his steady movement towards emancipation,
are but the growth and movement of the national mind. Indeed, in
character and culture he is a fair representative of the average Amer-
can. His awkward speech and yet more awkward silence ; his un
couth manners ; his style miscellaneous, concreted from the best au
thors, and yet oftentimes of Saxon force and classic purity ; his humor
an argument, and his logic a joke, both unseasonable at times and
irresistible always ; his questions answers, and his answers questions ;
his guesses prophecies, and fulfilment ever beyond his promise ; hon
est yet shrewd, simple yet reticent ; heavy and yet energetic ; never
despairing, and never sanguine ; careless in forms, conscientious in
essentials ; never sacrificing a good servant, once trusted, never desert
ing a sound principle, once adopted ; not afraid of new ideas, not de
spising old ones ; improving opportunities to confess mistakes, ready
to learn, getting at facts ; doing nothing when he knows not what to
do ; hesitating at nothing when he sees the right ; lacking the recog
nized qualifications of a party leader, and yet leading his party as no
other man can ; sustaining his political enemies in Missouri to their
defeat ; sustaining his political friends in Maryland to their victory ;
conservative in his sympathies, and radical in his acts ; Socratic in

CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 11
his style, and Baconian in his method ; his religion consisting in truth
fulness, temperance, asking good people to pray for him, and publicly
acknowledging in events the hand of God ; he stands before you as
the type of 'Brother Jonathan,' a not perfect man, and yet 'more
precious than fine gold.' "
To this statement something should now be added in regard to the
the President's CHRISTIAN CHARACTER.
While experience had cultured his language, style and manners, so
as to supply the defects of early education, it is his Christian charac
ter which, during the last year, had specially unfolded and perfected.
Truthfulness had developed into love of Him who is the Truth ; tem
perance had become Christian self-control ; the solicited prayers of
the good had been accompanied by his own prayers ; and the ac
knowledgment of Providence had ripened into the dedication of him
self to Jesus.
He will never be identified with any one denomination. He en
listed the fellowship of all Christians. His convictions betook some
what of every school. He was educated both by Friends and Pres
byterians. In a profound behef in the sovereignty of God, he was
Calvinistic ; in partiality for mercy, even to the neglect of justice, he
was Socinian ; but we may speak of him as at once orthodox and lib
eral, devout and humanitarian ; td whom the kingdom of heaven
came without observation, and was not declared in the usual phrases,
but whose "callino was of God." So that, remembering how with
out self-seeking, by a singular concurrence of events, which we now see
were providential, he came, first, to be President, and knowing how,
by the felt necessities of help from God and by the sorrows of Get
tysburg, he was led, next, to a Christian consecration, we may apply
to him the words of the text : "And the angel of the Lord called
unto Abraham out of heaven the second time.'''
How, fifty months ago, those parting words to his townsmen touch
ed the sympathies of the country ! How the request for prayer

12 CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

roused the Church of Christ ! Since, how easy to pray for Abraham
Lincoln ! We do not hesitate to believe that God's answer to the
prayers thus elicited, have made the President what he was, holding
him from disastrous blunders, leading him in the path of wisdom.
But what progress from this primal request does the second inau
gural show. This remarkable state paper is not a political manifesto,
but a Christian exposition. It is the words of a man of God, instruct
ing the people of his charge. It presents the sovereignty, wisdom,
and justice of God, the sinfulness of slavery, the faith, perseverance,
and charity which become the people. It is the farewell address of
the Restorer of the Union. It will be read unceasingly, and its Chris
tian doctrine, its ripeness, simplicity, pathos and profound sentiment,
will make it a sacred Epistle to the American people.
HIS WORK.
Having thus presented his character, we observe that the Presi
dent's work was done just as his death came. Posterity will regard
the emancipation proclamation as the great act of his life, but his
great work was the saving of the Union. The emancipation procla
mation was a means to this end, used with hesitation, lest, unsustain-
ed by the people, it might miscarry, and issued with a prayer that
the act of freedom, justice, and mercy might receive "the considerate
judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God."
The means proved efficient. At first it encountered bitter opposition,
but it was our safeguard against foreign intervention, our helper in
the enlistment of colored troops. And so the great work went on
of restoring the Union, until when Lee surrendered, we may say the
work was done. Whatever else fails, the Union cannot he dissolved.
The proposal made in the President's first inaugural, "to hold, oc
cupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Govern
ment," had been fulfilled ; the ports and chief cities of Rebellion had
surrendered ; their armies were scattered, captured, or demoralized ;
their chiefs were either slain, paroled, imprisoned, or fugitive; the
President had visited their stronghold ; the flag had been raised on

CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 13
Fort Sumter ; the appeal in behalf of a Uberal re-adjustment had
been made ; the last day of the four years since the first humbling of
the flag was drawing to its close amidst the joy of a great people,
victorious over disunion, ready to forgive the traitors, proposing to
receive back to all the rights and privileges of citizenship, any who
would take the oath of allegiance, and then, amidst the joy, and hope,
and peace, and amnesty, the tools of slavery plot for the murder of
all the rulers — President, Vice-President, Cabinet-Secretaries, Lieu-
tenant-General. The Secretary of State, our honored townsman, is
stabbed as he lies helpless upon a bed of pain, his sons and defend
ers are disabled, the Chief of all is slain, and the nation cries out in
agony ! JUSTICE.
But the cry is not alone of agony. It is also a cry for justice. It
is uttered not against the miserable, dissolute assassins, but against
the guilty Power that hies them on. It speaks to that conspiracy
which includes this and any infernal plot — the gigantic conspiracy
against human nature, which sought to carry oppression wherever the
flag of our country rules ; which corrupted our national politics, and
debauched the public conscience ; ^hich forced the country into com
promises, only that it might trample them under foot as stepping-stones
to more arrogant domination ; which made war upon a neighboring
Republic, that it might extend the area of slavery ; which struck down
a distinguished Senator in his place, and gloried in the act ; which
forbade free speech throughout its domain, and mobbed or hung
whomever the love of liberty forbade to keep silence ; which wasted
the Free State men of our border territories ; which sold its own flesh
and blood with fiendish greed for gold, breeding for the auction block ;
which waxed arrogant and brutal, till it refused to submit to the
constitutional election of Abraham Lincoln, impiously insisting that
he retire from the Presidential chair, and a secessionist, by general
consent, occupy his place, as the only escape from national disruption ;

14 CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
which demanded that we all bow down to Moloch, or pass through
the flame and blood of sacrifice, to the hideous idol ; which plotted to
assassinate the President elect on his way to Washington, fired on Fort
Sumter, sought to seize the capital by a coup d'etat, voted States
out of the Union, concentrated armies, possessed itself of forts, arse
nals, ships, and other properties of the United States ; in the midst of
profound peace, flung abroad the firebrands of civil strife, involved a
nation of thirty millions in a continental war, consuming thousands
of millions of substance, and slaying hundreds of thousands of our
sons and brothers ; which has sought by subtle plot, to involve our
cities in midnight conflagration, to desolate our towns with sudden
raids, and by the help of decoyed England, has burned our ships on
the high seas with pirate craft ; which has murdered, by wanton expo
sure and designed starvation, thousands of our brave soldiers, prisoners
of war, reducing many to an idiocy worse than death ; which
has mutilated the bodies of our slain heroes, scattering their flesh and
shaping their bones into trinkets ; butchered hundreds of our black
soldiers after surrender, and those white soldiers who escaped from its
infernal prisons hunted with blood-hounds ; which has visited thou
sands of Southern homes with fire and sword, hanging many a true
man before the eyes of wife or sister, for the sole crime of loving his
country's flag too well ; which has sought for four years, by inflam
matory appeals and offers of large rewards, to compass the assassina
tion of our chief officers: and which, at last, its armies beaten, its
foreign help paralyzed, its cities captured, its power exhausted, its
hopes demolished, with nothing to gain by the cowardly and infa
mous deed, sends the assassin's bullet from behind through the head
of the nation, and culminates all crimes against humanity by this
last crowning villany, fitting close to the horrible record of human
slavery ! "Treason has done bis worst ; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, notbing
Can toucb Tiim furtber,"
There is such a thing as vengeance ; I do not advocate it ; but is

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there not such a thing as justice ? Is law never to be vindicated ? Is
government not ordained of God, as a terror to the evil doer ? Is
there no such a thing as a righteous retribution ? Are we to see the
plotters and engineers of this great conspiracy, reinstated in their prop
erties, places, and families ? Is Robert E. Lee to be cheered by Amer
icans, because as a Virginia aristocrat he fought desperately against
his country ? Is treason only a difference of political sentiments ?
What lesson have we to learn? The President, living, teaches us
mercy, and we listen with consent to amnesty and re-construction ;
but the President murdered, teaches us retribution, and we swear
above his open grave, extermination against treason and its plotters.
As a Christian man and a Christian teacher, I ever inculcate mercy
for the penitent, but for the reprobate, for traitors to the last, for those
who will murder from behind, when they can no longer fight in front
— I call upon government to unsheath the sword of justice, and I do
it in the name of moral law and of Infinite Righteousness.
Biit you say, "extermination is impossible."
Let us analyze the population of the South.
Before the war there were (in round numbers) three hundred and
fifty thousand oligarohists ; one million poor whites, their tools ; four
millions of Africans, their slaves ; five millions of yeomanry. These
last were for the most part persons of industry and self supporting ;
some owned one, two, or three slaves apiece ; a few were educated ;
all preferred the Union, and as a class believed in free institutions.
The survivors of these five millions, with few exceptions, we may trust.
Many have died for the country, or are now in our armies ; those who
fought against us, were either deceived or conscripted ; they will take
the oath of allegiance in good faith, and return to the Union and
honest labor. Of the poor whites, many have died in the rebel armies ;
some will wander off to Mexico ; some will become guerrillas and be
shot ; the few remaining will be of less account. Of the oligarchists,
many have been slain in battle ; some are in Canada, or Europe ; a
few are true Union men ; the balance will be banished from the land

they have betrayed, or be condemned to death. There remain four
millions of Africans, laborers in the planting States. Who can surpass
the African in loyalty, in love for the flag, in bravery, in a desire for
education, in Bible faith, in love for Abraham Lincoln ? Shall they
who weep the saddest tears by the national bier, be denied citizenship,
and smiling rebels re-construct the Union ? Shall you and I never
learn to look below the skin ? Yes, we shall ! Though they murdered
Abraham Lincoln, his work they cannot murder ! Now is the Union
cemented, and the Emancipation Proclamation sealed with his blood !
Yea, we may say that the work to which he was "called by the angel of
the Lord," was but a part of God's great plan for this country. We
may not discern the plan in its fulness and beauty, but we see already
outlined the equal protection of all races, the fraternity of peoples,
the unhindered and universal dissemination of social, political, and
Christian truth. Abraham Lincoln has led out of Egypt, and from
Pisgah's top has passed to heaven. "Well done, good and faithful
servant," sobs the nation! Andrew Johnson will lead us into the
promised land !
We may be called to added sacrifices, but sacrifice has vicarious
power; our children and humanity will reap the blessing. God's
furnace of affliction may again be hot, but the fire will purify and save.
If we only win the End, we will bear the pain. It is the blessed pur
pose of heaven we fulfil. We are the keys of the great instrument,
from which an Almighty hand reveals the anthem. Last week it
was the paean of praise. To-day it is the dirge. Soon may it be the
hallelujah of salvation ! God's will be done ! Amen !

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