Antique American History - Lincoln Was a Gift To The World From God, As Democracy Hung By A Thread

Few have succeeded born into so manyadmonishments to both but one a clear winner.
disadvantages as Abraham Lincoln. His fatherAnd do you know who that would inevitably be?
drifted from a poor farm in Kentucky to worse inAnd why?
Indiana, where his sickly wife died. He left theThat law book had in it a judgment made in the
young boy and his younger sister, and soonSupreme Court of Justice of the United States of
returned with a jolly widow who had been aAmerica. In his summary, the presiding judge had
childhood sweetheart. She had three friendlymade a long statement in support of this decision
children, and Abraham had the loving mother ofof the Court, and then he had added in his
his life. In fact, if dad had his way, the lad wouldsummary, that in law and justice, from Greek
have no schooling at all.democracy, in a democratic state the rights of
But his nurturing new mom prevailed, andthe citizen must be upheld, and any laws of man,
between fits and starts over the next few years,under God, must not intrude on the rights of that
young Mr. Lincoln now had one full years schoolingindividual .
under his belt. And he was a voracious bookAnd this teen age boy with one year of school
reader, and as he grew, between helping with hiseducation stood up alert, as if called. And perhaps
chores, off earning cash splitting rails, clerking inhe had been. Who put that Book there then?
several stores, he would read every book heFrom that moment, Abraham Lincoln trained to
could put his hands on.be a lawyer, and he would take on the case of
He became the village scholar, and he would bethe individual he felt was in the right, not he could
called to settle a debate: the case for and againstmore likely pay his bill. And all the lawyer jokes in
the chaps about to come to blows. AbrahamSpringfield were not ever aimed at this man who
would hear both sides, and what he had learned inwould become known as Honest Abraham.
one of those law books made the difference toHe could not be bribed, bullied, intimidated, or put
all our lives, and his deliberations and considerationsoff if he saw an injustice . He dressed in black,
of sides, their merits and defects, would be heardand even carried his papers inside his top hat. But
by all.he had the mind of genius and a heart connected
And all would be then in great suspense to heardirectly to God and the good. And some how, he
what this great villager was prepared to say whatrose up through the politics to simply be there the
he thought would be a fair and reasonablemoment America was breaking apart and needed
judgment. And when he spoke his opinion oran extremely healing healer. And there He was.
judgment, the villagers as one would sigh andGod bless America: as happened then, and time
agree that what was being said was not only rightand again.
and reasonable, give and take of respect of