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i WINNET ZA TALK : : "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on i this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to f the proposition that all men are created equal. "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether 3 that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have = come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. "But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate--we cannot conse- v | crate--we cannot hallow--this ground. The brave men, living and 3 dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long re- member what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the un- finished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task = remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take in- creased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." Saturday, February 11, 1928