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Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
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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-day is proving itself to beone of the greatest peacemakers in theworld. Through the long ages past and gone,man has climbed up slowly step by stepfrom out the dark caverns which formedhis home and lair, from which he prowledforth to prey on his weaker neighbors ofthe animal kingdom. Slowly step by stepunder patriarch, feudal baron, dukes, andkings, he has advanced in national or-ganization until now he owes allegiancenot to his ruler, but to his country. Justso surely will he continue to climb, but al-ways slowly, until he owes allegianceto all his brothers over the earth, and notuntil then will there be an end of war. Butthat desired amity is in the distant future.We must be patient and wait for the de-velopment that will come to us slowly as ithas in the past. As a nation we have onlyfeelings of good-will and friendship to-ward all our neighbors. We wish forpeace; but, as nations exist to-day, to ensurethat peace we must be prepared to wage avictorious war, if it be forced upon us.
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DANGERS OF THE EMMANUELMOVEMENT REASONS WHY IT SHOULD NOT BE GENERALLY ADOPTEDBY JAMES M. BUCKLEY, LL.D. Editor of The Christian Advocate IN 1874, Houghton, Mifflin and Co.published a small work of mine en-titled Supposed Miracles. Long be-fore that date I had been studyinganimal magnetism, one of severalnames for the same thing, and anti-medicine faith-cure societies, under variousreligious titles, as well as cures attrib-uted to Spiritist, healing mediums.Later I investigated the Simpson anti-medicine faith-healing cult, followed therise, decline, and fall of the spectacularDowie, and have critically watched Chris-tian Science from its birth to a vigorouswomanhood. The results of these investi-gations have been published at intervalsin The Century. From force of habit and because of theintrinsic interest of the subject, I havecarefully followed the Emmanuel Move-ment. The Rev. Elwood Worcester,D.D., Ph.D., Rector of Emmanuel Pro-testant Episcopal Church of Boston, Mass.,is an accomp

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