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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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y her lessons of truth and virtue went downinto the heart of her hstening son ; how in the fulness of time the germswould put forth their tender shoots; how her own spirit would reap-pear in his, and the beauty of her soul glorify his life. She had few opportunities to gratify her longings or enlarge hersphere of usefulness. Occasionally a preacher came to the log meeting-house at Little Mound to hold services on Sunday. Like her own home,it had no floor. Logs split in halves served for seats. Public spirit inHodgensville had erected the .building, but had not provided glass forthe windows. To this meeting-house, located three miles from the Lin-coln home, settlers came from far and near—parents and children, on footor on horseback. It was not only a place for religious service, but thenews exchange, where, before and after the sermon, they could hear whatwas going on in the community and in the world outside of NolinsCreek. At Little Mound young men could look into the faces of the
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EARLY YEARS. 23 maidens, thinking possibly quite as much of their charming countenancesas of the heads of the preachers sermon. Abraham Lincoln, five years old, was not unmindful of what he sawand heard in Little Mound meeting-house, for usually, after reachinghome, he mounted a stool and preached a sermon of his own, shoutingin imitation of the minister, and pounding the table with his little fist.He especially liked the Rev. David Elkin. The preacher may have seensomething in Thomas Lincolns boy that attracted his particular atten-tion. It may have been the purity, earnestness, and sadness of themothers countenance reproduced in the face of the son; perchance theboy asked him questions when he stepped down from the pulpit to shakehands with the father and mother. AVhatever the mutual attraction mayhave been, David Elkin and Abraham Lincoln became fast friends. It is plain that the settlers of Ilodgensville had no very exalted ideasconcerning the education of their children. Xo schoo

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