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    Lincoln's Use of The Bible
    Lincoln's Use of The Bible
    Lincoln's Use of The Bible
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    Lincoln's Use of The Bible

    By Samuel Trevena Jackson

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Lincoln's Use of The Bible - Samuel Trevena Jackson

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      Title: Lincoln's Use of The Bible

      Author: Samuel Trevena Jackson

      Release Date: December 28, 2011 [eBook #38434]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LINCOLN'S USE OF THE BIBLE***

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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

      LINCOLN’S USE OF THE BIBLE

      The Bible is the king’s best copy, the magistrate’s best rule, the housewife’s best guide, the servant’s best directory, and the best companion of youth.

      n a log cabin at Nolin’s Creek, Hardin County, Kentucky, the boy breathed the first breath of life. Hope’s anchor hung on a slender string, if we are to measure by the child’s home surroundings. But his birthplace possessed a soul; for a home with a good book in it has a soul. This book was the Bible. It mastered his manners, molded his mind, made mighty his

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