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Show Lincoln's Library. The P.ible Is literary, political, historical his-torical and educational. Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln had only three hooks In his early manhood: the P.lble, Aesop's Fables and Weoms' History of the United States. The Bible was the great book that gave the martyred president his simple, tender, beautiful literary style, both for speaking and writing. The fables gave him his story Illustrations, while the history made him familiar with the great characters and events of the nation. Leave the Bible out of his life and he might have been a moral wreck ; at least there would have been no Abraham Lincoln as the world sees him today. Exchange. |