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Identifier: lincolnslifestor01selb (find matches)
Title: Lincoln's life, stories, and speeches
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Selby, Paul, 1825-1913
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : J.R. Stanton Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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th her about the bedside of the sick ones,and that he often walked the room, saying sadly: This is the hardest trial of my life; why is it?Why is it? In the course of conversation with her, he ques-tioned her concerning his situation. She told him thatshe was a widow, and that her husband and two chil-dren were in heaven; and added that she saw the handof God in it all, and that she had never loved him somuch before as she had since her affliction. How is that brought about? inquired Mr, Lincoln. Simply by trusting in God and feeling that he doesall things well, she replied. Did you submit fully under the first loss? he asked. No, she answered, not wholly; but, as blow cameupon blow, and all were taken, I could and did submit,and was very happy. He responded: I am glad to hear you say that.Vour experience will help me to bear my affliction. On being assured that many Christians were prayingfor him on the morning of the funeral, he wiped awaythe tears that sprang in his eyes, and said:
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JiiMCOI^: AFD mS SON tAD, PRESIDENTIAL INCIDENTS. 159 I am glad to hear that. I want them to pray forme. I need their prayers. , As he was going out to the burial, the good ladyexpressed her sympathy with him. He thanked hergently, and said: I will try to go to Grod with my sorrows. A few days afterward she asked him if he couldtrust God. He replied: I think I can, and will try. I wish I had thatchildlike faith you speak of, and I trust he will give itto me. And then he spoke of his mother, whom somany years before he had committted to the dustamong the wilds of Indiana. In this hour of his greattrial the memory of her who had held him upon herbosom, and soothed his childish griefs, came back tohim with tenderest recollections. I remembered herprayers, said he, and they have always followed me.They have clung to me all my life. DEATH OF LINCOLNS FAVORITE SON. Mr. Lincoln regarded the death of his favorite sonas the turning-point in his spiritual history. He said,That blow overwhelmed

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