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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a character sketch
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sheppard, Robert Dickinson, b. 1846 Adam, G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer), 1830-1912 Shepardson, Francis Wayland, 1862-1937. The life of Lincoln Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910. The early days of Abraham Lincoln
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Chicago : Union School Furnishing Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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nounced in the Holy Scriptures, and proven byall history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And, insomuch as we know that, by his Divine laws, nations, likeindividuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in thisworld, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war,which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted uponus for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our National ref-ormation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven.We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation hasever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten thegracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and en-riched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the de-ceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced bysome superior wisdom and virtue of our own. 174 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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Gen. W. T. Sherman.Born 1820. Died 1891. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan.Born 1831. Died 1888. THE STORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. FOR A SCHOOL OR CLUB PROGRAMME. Each numbered paragraph is to be given to a pupil ormember to read, or to recite, in a clear, distinct tone. If the school or club is small, each person may takethree or four paragraphs, but should not be required torecite them in succession. 1. Abraham Lincoln was born Feb. 12, 1809, in the county ofLaRue, in the state of Kentucky. 2. He first attended school at Little Pidgeon Creek in the win-ter of 1819. 3. Three or four years later he attended Crawfords school inthe same locality. ABRAHAM LINXOLN. 175 4. In 1826, he received his last schooling under the tuition ofMr. Swaney. To reach this institution of learning, he walked fouimiles and a half each way. 5. Later, as a hired boy, he taught himself as best he couldwith his rude surroundings, often ciphering on a wooden fire shovelor anything else that came in his way. 6. His reading was

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