PRESIDENT LINCOLN
Photograph by Brady, Washington, D. C., 1863
Theron Brown, born at Willimantic, Connecticut, April 29, 1832. Graduated at Hartford Theological Seminary in 1858; Newton Theological Institution, 1859. Ordained in Baptist Ministry, 1859; Pastor South Framingham, Massachusetts, 1859-62; Canton, Massachusetts, 1863-70; on staff Youth's Companion since 1870. Author various juvenile stories; Life Songs (poems), 1894; Nameless Women of the Bible, 1904; The Story of the Hymns and Tunes, 1907; Under the Mulberry Tree (a novel), 1909; The Birds of God, 1911. He died February 14, 1914.
[THE LIBERATOR]
| When, scornful of a nation's rest, The angry horns of Discord blew There came a giant from the West, And found a giant's work to do. He saw, in sorrow—and in wrath— A mighty empire in its strait, Torn like a planet in its path To warring hemisphere of hate. Between the thunder-clouds he stood; He harked to Ruin's battle-drum, And cried in patriot hardihood, "Why do I wait? My hour has come! "Was it my fate, my lot, my woe To be the Ruler of the land, Nor own my oath that long ago I swore upon this heart and hand? "That vow, like barb from bowman's string, Shall pierce sedition's secret plea: [top] God grant the bloodless blow shall sting Till brother's quarrels cease to be! "Should once the sudden wound provoke New strife in anger's zone The clash may be the penal stroke That makes a new Republic one." He wrote his Message—clear as light, And bolder than a king's command— And when war's whirlwinds spent their might There was no bondman in the land. |
PRESIDENT LINCOLN
Photograph by Alexander Gardner, Washington, D. C., January 24, 1863