Excerpt from Proceedings at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York: In Commemoration of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln, Waldorf-Astoria, Thursday, February Twelfth, Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen God, our hearts are full of thanksgiving to-night, not only for these material blessings which Thou art giving unto us, but also for the great spiritual blessing and spiritual force whose memory we are here to observe. We ask that Thou wilt give Thy blessing, not only upon the food of which we partake, but that Thou wilt give Thy blessing unto this occasion; that Thou wilt raise our hearts and our lives to higher levels, as we consider the high levels unto which that great soul reached in the crisis of this great nation. We thank Thee, Lord, for that light, for that character. We thank Thee for the blessings we enjoy now because he lived, because he died for the nation that he loved. We ask that Thou wilt receive our thanks, not only for this of which we are about to partake, but also for the gift of that great heart, that great soul whose memory we honor and revere to night. And all we ask is for Thy name's sake. Amen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.