. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . e maxim to be no less truein the one case than in the other. On every hand webehold those who but yesterday were the chief of sinners,now the chief apostles of the cause. Drunken devils arecast out
. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . e maxim to be no less truein the one case than in the other. On every hand webehold those who but yesterday were the chief of sinners,now the chief apostles of the cause. Drunken devils arecast out by ones, by sevens, by legions, and their un-fortunate victims, like the poor possessed who was re-deemed from his long and lonely wanderings in thetombs, are publishing to the ends of the earth how greatthings have been done for them. To these new champions and this new system of tac-tics our late success is mainly owing, and to them wemust mainly look for the final consummation. The ballis now rolling gloriously on, and none are so able as theyto increase its speed and its bulk, to add to its momen-tum and magnitude, even though unlearned in letters, forthis task none are so well educated. To fit them for thiswork they have been taught in the true school. Theyhave been in that gulf from which they would teachothers the means of escape. They have passed that VO H XK C> o >Z c XK O cr. 320 Lincolns stories and speeches. prison wall which others have long declared impassable,and who that has not shall dare to weigh opinions withthem as to the mode of passing ? But if it be true, as I have insisted, that those whohave suffered by intemperance personally and have re-formed are the most powerful and efficient instruments topush the reformation to ultimate success, it does not fol-low that those who have not suffered have no part leftthem to perform. Whether or not the world would bevastly benefited by a total and final banishment from itof all intoxicating drinks seems to me
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