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LINCOLN’S USE
OF THE BIBLE
BY
S. TREVENA JACKSON
THE ABINGDON PRESS
NEW YORK CINCINNATI
Copyright, 1909, by
EATON & MAINS.
Printed December, 1909
Reprinted February, 1910; October, 1914
| When quiet in my house I sit, Thy book be my companion still; My joy thy sayings to repeat, Talk o’er the records of thy will, And search the oracles divine, Till every heartfelt word be mine. —Charles Wesley. |
| The Bible is a book of faith, A book of doctrine, And a book of religion, Of especial revelation from God. —Daniel Webster. |
| And weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said— Is in the Book our mothers read. —Whittier. |
LINCOLN’S USE OF THE BIBLE
“The Bible is the king’s best copy, the magistrate’s best rule, thehousewife’s best guide, the servant’s best directory, and the bestcompanion of youth.”
n a log cabin at Nolin’s Creek, Hardin County, Kentucky, the boy breathedthe first breath of life. Hope’s anchor hung on a slender string, if weare to measure by the child’s home surroundings. But his birthplacepossessed a soul; for a home with a good book in it has a soul. This bookwas the Bible. It mastered his manners, molded his mind, made mighty hismanhood, and gave to America the matchless man.
In the Bible he found the truth for the ills of men, the secret for thesolution of life’s perplexing problems, the...