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"American
history shall march along that skyline," announced Gutzon Borglum in
1924, believing his dream would come true in the Black Hills of South
Dakota.
In
1927 Borglum began sculpting the images of George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt on the rough graine
granite face of 6,000-foot Mount Rushmore.
Most of the sculpting was done by experienced miners under Borglum's direction.
Working
with jackhammers and dynamite, they removed some 400,000 tons of outer
rock, cutting within three inches of what would be the final finished
surface.
When Borglum died in March 1941, his dream of the world's biggest sculpture was near completion. His son Lincoln finished the work that October, some 14 years after it was begun.
Dreams do sometimes come true, and if not,
we are still the better for their having lived.
Their beauty and their hope is not ever really lost e\'en if they never reach the sunlight of fulfillment.
There is something about a dream that will not die, that is precious. Like a haunting note of music it fills the silence of the night.
Like the ripple of a dying stream it meets the dawn of a new day.
Like something eternal it has about it a glow of immortality.
It could and perhaps must be said that dreams are timeless.
That
they are of intangible stuff, soft with their own peculiar flavor, hard
with a resolution that gives them a temple of strength, kind because
their joy speaks even in the midst of their tears.
Dreams sometimes come in sleep, awakened by a mind that drowses.
Dreams
sometimes come in wakefulness, in an idle moment, when -the dreamer was
not even aware of the dream. Dreams sometimes come because they are
sought, as a kind of solace to reality.
But however they come, do not curse a dream, or deny a dream, or forget a dream, for a dream is a part of personality, a dream is alive, a dream never really dies.
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"Positive,
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appreciation of Lincoln while revealing the Divine source of his
strength."
Lt. Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)
"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an
extremely well written book that investigates what might be termed the
spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very
readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the
President and with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'
William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn
"Wyrick
has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of
American history's most devoutly religious leaders...a pleasant and
readable book that has a rich depth of information."
Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian minister
"When
it comes to invoking religion in support of any of their decisions,
politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr
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
"v. Neil
Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham Lincoln's
Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history. Should
have a wide readership."
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."
Daniel Allen Butler, author of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The Age o f Cunard
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