Excerpt from A Series of Wonderful Sermons It is an interesting thing to find that such a character, one who never joined the church, who never made what people some times call an open profession of religion, should now be a hero of the church, and his principles accepted as principles of genuine Christianity. It appears to me that the one man in a thousand for whom the preacher was look ing is found in Abraham Lincoln but not because he differs from other men. It would be very useless for me to turn your attention again to this great man if it were not for the fact that the lesson can be very helpful. When a man attempts by poetry or ora tory, or song, to put a man like him far up high on a pedestal, as though no man could ever approach him, they do a great deal of harm instead of good, and are dis heartening those who might follow his foot steps ii they were encouraged to do so. I am not one of those who believe that Abra ham Lincoln was so far above all the other men or was so different from other men that he could not be imitated now. I be lieve he can be followed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.