Abraham Lincoln, the Young Man: An Address Delivered in the South Congregational Church, New Britain, and Before the Lincoln Club in Berlin, Conn., February 11, 1906 (Classic Reprint)
Abraham Lincoln, the Young Man: An Address Delivered in the South Congregational Church, New Britain, and Before the Lincoln Club in Berlin, Conn., February 11, 1906 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln, the Young Man: An Address Delivered in the South Congregational Church, New Britain, and Before the Lincoln Club in Berlin, Conn., February 11, 1906 The grave peril which threatens us in our admiration of the heroic characters of. The Old Testament is the tendency that we have to think that the living God worked and spoke so uniquely through these men that He has never revealed His will and purpose through other modern men, equally noble and equally the agents of God's will. To-day I propose ...
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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln, the Young Man: An Address Delivered in the South Congregational Church, New Britain, and Before the Lincoln Club in Berlin, Conn., February 11, 1906 The grave peril which threatens us in our admiration of the heroic characters of. The Old Testament is the tendency that we have to think that the living God worked and spoke so uniquely through these men that He has never revealed His will and purpose through other modern men, equally noble and equally the agents of God's will. To-day I propose that we turn to another and modern Saul the son of Kish, stalwart, tall, goodly and chosen, to see what his life and character has to inspire and furnish as for our common life. I shall speak, therefore, of Abraham Lincoln, the young man. My purpose is simply to outline the permanent characteristics of the great American as they had become fixed, let us say, by the time he had reached the age of twenty-six. None of his powers was fully developed, for the great critical tests had'not come; he had become neither a national nor a world figure, as he became later. The man himself, however, prophetic of what was to be in the future, was already outlined. This outline we shall consider together now. Let me speak a word first of all concerning the social group from which the young Lincoln came. SO much is said concerning the one-room cabin in which he was born, the hard work and poverty that accompanied his boyhood, that the notion seems to prevail that Lincoln's boyhood surroundings were all quite against him. Instead of this, I believe that there lay in the environment of the boy in Indiana and Illinois during those pioneer days the very forces which were most helpful and hopeful toward the formation of a resolute, self-reliant and ambi tious character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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