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Dr.
Helen Roseveare, missionary to Zaire, told the following story. "A
mother at our mission station died after giving birth to a premature
baby. We tried to improvise an incubator to keep the infant alive, but
the only hot water bottle we had was beyond repair.
So
we asked the children to pray for the baby and for her sister. One of
the girls responded. 'Dear God, please send a hot water bottle today.
Tomorrow will be too late because by then the baby will be dead. And
dear Lord, send a doll for the sister so she won't feel so lonely.'
That afternoon a large package arrived from England.
The
children watched eagerly as we opened it. Much to their surprise, under
some clothing was a hot water bottle! Immediately the girl who had
prayed so earnestly started to dig deeper, exclaiming, 'If God sent
that, I'm sure He also sent a doll!'
And she was right!
The
heavenly Father knew in advance of that child's sincere requests, and 5
months earlier He had led a ladies' group to include both of those
specific articles."
If I were asked to explain why it is I pray, I would respond, "Because both want and need a daily conversation with my G0D."( know my sins and have need of forgiveness.
I know the world some· times gets too much for me and that, when it does, common sense takes me to my knees. I know it seems to me a large dose of foolishness to attempt the art of living alone, because our capacity for pride is ridiculous and our need for some kind of guidance is obvious.
I know that too often one turns to God as a last resort when the better wisdom would be to remember him as a first response.
I have long believed that it is better to practice prayer from the day of induction than to wait for the foxhole.
I have long believed it is better to learn how to pray when you can still dance a jig than have to take a how-to crash course when you have one foot in the grave.
I
believe, as someone once said, that "hunger would never have continued
without food, nor breathing without air, nor intellectual life without
truth, nor prayer without God."
In a church in Kentucky, an especially verbal and boisterous child was being hurried out, slung under his irate father's arm.
No
one in the congregation so much as raised an eyebrow--until the child
captured everyone's attention by crying out in a charming Southern
accent, "Ya'll pray for me now!"
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"When
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once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because
he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the
Almighty. As Wyrick
says, 'He wore the mantle of humility easily: because he was more
impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he,
president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was
doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between
both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.'
Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of
politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book
for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career,
Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."
Dr. Donald W. Shriver
Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics
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Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham Lincoln's
Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history. Should
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James H. Smylie Professor of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
"Neil Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read
by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably the most
complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United
States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so
often expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip
service to a Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real
God. It was this faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight
and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in full measure
as he led the United States through the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear
and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the
character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his point very
well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as
relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."
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