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Excerpt from Lincoln Birthday Service: The Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association of Illinois, Sunday, February 1922, at 2: 30 P. MBe with us in this meeting, grant Thy guidance and Thine inspiration to those who shall participate that it might be uplifted into the heavenly place.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an i...

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Excerpt from When Boston Braved the King: A Story of Tea-Party TimesThe story of the Boston tea-party has been told many times, but still it offers to the story-teller a tempting theme. One thing which deserves to be brought more prominently to the front is the large share which the young people, the apprentices, the boys in the Latin School, and the Daughters of Lib erty had in the making of public sentiment and the carrying out of daring pro...

Excerpt from Esther T. Barton, a Biographical Sketch: In Her Beloved Memory This Book Is Prepared by Her HusbandNO very serious accidents or mishaps troubled the memory Of her childhood, except one. That was the time She ran a needle, full length, into her knee. She was a very little girl at the time, but she remembered all about it. Her father.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Excerpt from Faith as Related to HealthNot long since I preached a sermon on The Heal ing Christ, in which I had occasion to speak some what at length of those alleged works of healing which, under various names, now claim the right to be known as distinctively Christian. Certain people who heard the sermon asked for its publication, and I consented. The sermon, however, was one of a series extending from Christmas to Easter, and considering i...

Excerpt from Blue Stars and Gold: For Every Home That Flies a Service FlagHe is pastor of a church whose Roll of Honor bears more than a hundred names, and its service ¿ag more than a hundred stars. He is, therefore, unusually qualified to inspire and comfort the fath ers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts and wives of men at the front. He has visited camps where soldiers and sailors are assembled, and his messages to them have been most ...

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln and His BooksAt New Salem, Lincoln read law, and had his introduction to natural history, and to scientific subjects. Herndon relates that he read Rollin's Ancient History and Gibbon's Rome, but that he did not greatly enjoy history. I have several volumes once owned by him, and bearing the firm name of Lincoln and Herndon in his writing, one of them being Ancient and Modern History by J. E. Worcester.About the Pub...

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Excerpt from The Influence of Illinois in the Development of Abraham LincolnLincoln and Illinois were twin - born. Abraham Lincoln first saw light on Sunday, February 11, 1809. Nine days before his birth, Illi nois, by Act of Congress, began its autonomous existence as a territory. The future commonwealth and its most illustrious citizen began life together, both unconscious of the in¿uence which each was to exert upon the destiny of the other...

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Excerpt from Old Plantation Hymns: A Collection of Hitherto Unpublished Melodies of the Slave and the Freedman, With Historical and Descriptive NotesThe foregoing song uses principally stanzas that have reference to death, and contain a warning, but among a great collection of them there is no certain order. Several hymns in com mon use furnish couplets for this pur pose, - most of all, Jesus my all to heaven is gone. Other hymns are used. I h...

Excerpt from A Catalogue of Lincolniana: With an Essay on Lincoln AutographsAbraham Lincoln was a prolific writer. Specimens of his handwriting are extant from the days when as a school boy he began to write and cypher, until the very day of his death, under which date an infrequent signature comes now and then into market. Not less than five times he wrote his youthful jingle:Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen, He will be good, But God knows w...

Excerpt from Hero in Homespun: A Tale of the Loyal SouthI desire to thank the friends - too many to be named - who during the last twelve years have aided me in the securing of incidents for this under taking. F or aid in gathering historical material, I am especially indebted to Mr. Arthur M. Knapp of the Boston Public Library. I wish also to acknowledge the courtesy of the railroads passing to and through the region described, the Big Four, ...

Excerpt from Four Hitherto Unpublished Gospels: A Series of Character Studies Cast in the Form of Personal Memoirs of John the Baptist, Andrew the Brother of Simon Peter, Judas Iscariot, James the Brother of JesusNevertheless, it is undeniable that there were other men who knew Jesus, some of whom were members of the apostolic group, who, if they had written of the life and ministry of Jesus as they saw it, would have told us some things which...

Excerpt from The Life of Clara Barton, Vol. 2: Founder of the American Red CrossAnd this, in its international character, extends not alone to its own, but to all nations within the compact.This society had been formed in 1865, at the instance of Dr. Louis Appia, - there present, - a noted surgeon in the Italian wars of Napoleon III, who had at that date called a convention composed of delegates from the civilized nations of the whole world, f...

Excerpt from The Paternity of Abraham Lincoln: Was He the Son of Thomas Lincoln?, An Essay on the Chastity of Nancy HanksA large portion of this volume was written before the author realized that it had begun. In the preparation of his former book, The Soul of Abraham Lincoln, the author undertook a painstaking study of Lincoln's successive environments, which involved, incidentally, inquiry into his heredity. This latter aspect was of seconda...