A Defence of Lincoln's Mother, Conversion and Creed: Being an Open Letter to the Author of "The Soul of Abraham Lincoln,"Priv. pub., 1921 - 76 pages |
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Page 58 - Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes : for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Page 57 - And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, 24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? 25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Page 31 - When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both Law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself,' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.
Page 48 - I had repeated it over and over again, until I had put it in language plain enough, as I thought, for any boy I knew to comprehend.
Page 48 - I got on such a hunt after an idea, until I had caught it ; and when I thought I had got it, I was not satisfied until I had repeated it over and over, until I had put it in language plain enough, as I thought, for any boy I knew to comprehend. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me ; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it North, and bounded it South, and bounded it East, and bounded it West.
Page 10 - A few days afterward, she asked him if he could trust God. He replied : " I think I can, and I will try. I wish I had that childlike faith you speak of, and I trust He will give it to me.
Page 31 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself,' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.
Page 48 - I can remember going to my little bedroom, after hearing the neighbors talk of an evening with my father, and spending no small part of the night walking up and down and trying to make out what was the exact meaning of some of their, to me, dark sayings.
Page 59 - I will see those things only from a long distance, and that I will be among the dead when the Nation, which God granted me to lead through those awful trials, will cross the Jordan, and dwell in that land of promise, where peace, industry, happiness, and liberty will make everyone happy, and why so? Because He has already given me favors which He never gave, I dare say, to any man in these latter days. "Why did God Almighty refuse to Moses the favor of crossing the Jordan and entering the promised...
Page 10 - Placing her feeble hand on little Abe's head she told him to be kind and good to his father and sister ; to both she said, 'Be good to one another,' expressing a hope that they might live, as they had been taught by her, to love their kindred and worship God.