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"I often wish that I could lie down and sleep without waking. But I will fight it out if I can." So wrote one of the bravest, most inspiring men who ever lived, Sir Walter Scott. In his 56th year, failing in health, his wife dying of an incurable disease, Scott was in debt a half million dollars. A publishing firm he had invested in had collapsed.

 He might have taken bankruptcy, but shrank from the strain. From his creditors he asked only time. Thus began his race with death, a valiant effort to pay off the debt before he died.

To be able to write free from interruptions, Scott withdrew to a small rooming house in Edinburgh.
 He had left his dying wife, Charlotte behind in the country. "It withered my heart," he wrote in his diary, but his presence could avail her nothing now.

A few weeks later she died. After the funeral he wrote in his diary: "Were an enemy coming upon my house, would I not do my best to fight, although oppressed in spirits; and shall a similar despondency prevent me from mental exertion?

It shall not, by heaven!" With a tremendous exercise of will, he returned to the task, stifling his grief.

He turned out Woodstock, Count Robert of Paris, Castle Dangerous, and other works. Though twice stricken with paralysis, he labored steadily until the fall of 1832.

Then came a merciful miracle. Although his mental powers had left him, he died September 21, 1832, happy in the illusion that all his debts were paid.

(They were finally paid in 1847 with the sale of all his copyrights.) Thomas Carlyle was to write of him latter: "No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in the eighteenth century of time." 

A ship is safe in a protected harbor but that is not what ships are made for.

Sometimes courage is nothing more than saying “I will rise again tomorrow to try again.”

To never know defeat just proves you never courted victory.

               THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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How spiritual was Lincoln?  Well, look at how often he worked God into both his conversations and speeches.  He was not the only President to mention prayers to the Almighty on a regular basis, but what is important is how comfortable he seemed in doing it.  A single reminder of an isolated spiritual moment would make it impossible to build a case for spirituality.  With Lincoln this is never a problem, for this giant of a man had a giant on-going sense of soul equal to his physical presence.

          “I invite the people of the United States… to invoke the influence of His Holy Spirit…”³  It is well to remember that the man behind this national proclamation also wrote that he had a solemn oath registered in heaven to finish his work.  But why not?  This, after all, was a man who at Gettysburg, with Generals and other men of good  counsel all around, still fell to his knees in prayer, and thereby, found “sweet comfort” ⁴  creeping into his soul.

A secular humanist will be less than happy with these observations because it reminds us that Abraham Lincoln was a man of moral absolutes.  That he knew the difference between right and wrong and agonized over them.  Anyone who has a love affair with anarchy has to be unhappy with a president who did not believe that if it feels good then it must be okay.

A  Quote FROM Rev. Wyrick’s 9^TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN”

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