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Show Lincoln s Bible Washington. Was It chance that left two white silk ribbon markers at passages particularly appropriate to the stress of the Civil war in the Bible upon which Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office, or did the hand of the President himself place them there? The book is now In the permanent keeping of the Library of Congress. It was placed there last spring by Mrs. Hubert Todd Lincoln Together with the old family Itihle ot Alira bain Lincoln and the gold medal presented to Mrs. Lincoln by the cltl zens of France after President Lincoln's Lin-coln's death. It is a small book with red plush rovers and gilt-edged leaves. The two markers were left at the thirty-first chapter of Deuteronomy and the fourth chapter of lloseu llotb chapters contain verses particularly partic-ularly appropriate to the dark days through which Lincoln passed soon after taking the oath of otllce. The sixth verse of the first named chapter reads: "He strong and of good couruge. fear not nor be afraid of them, for Hie Lord thy God. He II is that doth go with thee. He will not fall thee nor forsuka thee." The first three verses of the fourth chapter of llosea. where Hie oilier marker rests, are as follows: "Hear ye I he word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord I111U1 a controversy with the Inhabitants of the land because there Is no iruih nor mercy nor knowledge of Hod In the land, liy swearing and lying and killing und stealing and committing adultery they break out and blood touclieth blood. Therefore, shall the land mourn and every one that dwell eth therein shall languish with the beasts of the fields, hnd with the fowls of heaven, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall he taken away." |