Word: abraham
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...state. Smith ruled by revelations -invariably convenient ones-by hellfire threats and a genial disposition. Besides being Prophet, he was judge, mayor and general of his own militia. When he said God had told him to start up polygamy as it had been in the days of Abraham and Solomon, none dreamed that the motive was not pious procreation, though a crony of the Prophet's was a "professor of midwifery," and Smith, a handsome six-footer, had been heard to say: "When- ever I see a pretty woman, I have to pray for grace...
Died. Edward P. Judd, son of Norman Judd who, in 1860, nominated Abraham Lincoln, at the National Republican Presidential Convention; in Seattle, Wash...
...Fosdick stated his program as a desire to make his church one which Abraham Lincoln would have joined. He quoted Lincoln: "When any Church will inscribe over its altars, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both law and gospel: 'Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself,' that Church will I join with all my heart and all my soul...
...church which Abraham Lincoln would have joined...
...LOST SPEECH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN-Honore Willsie Morrow- Stokes ($1.00). When homespun Lawyer Lincoln arose at Bloomington, Ill., in May, 1856, to breathe life into an inert body that some editors and politicians had created and hoped to call the Republican Party, he uttered not two score words before his hearers- all the stenographers and reporters present included-lost control over head, heart and hand. When he had done and the Party lived, the stenographers and reporters shudderingly discovered that they had let mighty-worded history fly out of the window. The Morrow version of that event, which aims...