Excerpt from The Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association of Illinois: Twentieth Lincoln Birthday Service President Cummings: Ladies and gentlemen, members of the Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association, and comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic: We gather today on the one hundred and tenth anniversary of Lincoln's birthday, and the twentieth of the exercises held by this organization, to do honor to the Great American, whose work made this republic possible. The exercises of today will commence with the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. After that the invocation by the Reverend Herbert W. Prince. The audience will please rise and remain standing in their places. 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.