John a widtsoe biography of abraham lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln is one of my heroes. I enjoy his humor. On one occasion Lincoln recounted the following story:
During an interview withDavid Tod,the war Governor of Ohio [I] remarked: ‘You are perhaps aware, Governor, that my wife is a member of the Todd family of Kentucky, and they all spell their name with two d’s. How is it that you use but one?’ ‘Mr. President, God spells his name with one d, and one is enough for the Governor of Ohio'” (Putnam’s Monthly and the Reader, Vol. v, October 1908-March 1909, p. 524).
But there was a great deal more to Lincoln than his sense of humor. I love him for his wisdom. He was a great teacher!
[About the time of Lincoln’s first inauguration] everyone was asking him, with evident apprehension, if not perturbation: ‘What is to be the issue of this Southern effervescence? Are we really to have civil war?’ and he once responded in substance as follows:
Many years ago, when I was a young lawyer, and Illinois was little settled, except on her southern border, I, with other lawyers, used to ride the circuit, journeying with the judge from county-seat to county-seat in quest of business. Once, after a long spell of pouring rain, which had flooded the whol
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Today, the fact that Joseph Smith was involved in treasure digging is undisputed, yet still hardly common knowledge among members of the church. This is likely due to the historic denials from church leadership on Joseph and any such occult practices. The church has sought to distance itself from the strange magic practices of the …
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The church has reluctantly had to admit that Joseph Smith used his seer stones in his efforts to translate the Book of Mormon and not just the Urim and Thummim he received with the gold plates. They don’t like to admit that the seer stone in question is the same one he used in his …
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In 1945 the Improvement Era shared the now-ingrained Mormon mantra “When our leaders speak, the thinking has been done“. J Raymond Cope In response to this message, a Christian minister was troubled by what control the Mormon church leaders had on the people of Utah. He was not a Mormon, but a Unitarian minister in Salt …
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