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Title: Wreck and sinking of the Titanic : the ocean's greatest disaster : a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls : giving exciting excape from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors ; edited by Marshall Everett
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Everett, Marshall
Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) Shipwrecks
Publisher: (S.l. : L.H. Walter)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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attempt to define His motive in this tragic end of agreat person. God sometimes, in His infinite wisdom,selects a man to designate that his life may be remem-bered by all mankind. At the conclusion of the CivilWar it seemed to every one that the life of AbrahamLincoln was complete. His work, a great work, hadbeen accomplished. Yet God saw one thing lacking.To perpetuate through the annals of time itself, onething was essential. And God designated him and madea martyr of him. *Isidor Straus was a great Jew. All the traditionsof the Jew were dear to his heart. In the past we, asJews, have been able to say the Jews are great philan-thropists. Now when we are asked, Can a Jew diebravely? there is an answer in the annals of time. Whenwe are asked, *What enabled Isidor Straus to do allthese things? our answer must be,God blessed him andgave him Ida Straus. Isidor and Ida Straus were twopersons with a single thought. Beloved and adored ofeach other in life, in death they were not separated.
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Copyright Harris & Ewinsr MAJ, Aid to President Taft.that ARCHIBALD BUTT One of the heroic dead, stepping asideothers might be saved

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