The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02

! to us to make this book one with which all students of the lives of Lin coin must hereafter reckon. You will find a number of popular theories of Lincoln contradicted. The author writes with knowledge of his subject matter and after an examination of all known published material and much that has never been published.
 | Dr. Barton has followed with inti- mate personal knowledge and thorough historical investigation the career of Lincoln in his successive environments He has thus succeeded in reconstruct ing an historical setting for the growth of Lincolns religious ideas which not only passes the strictest test of known fact but adds as well several impor- | tant items to our knowledge of per- sonality of abiding interest. Dr. Barton Is pastor of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park, H., the largest church of his denomi- nation in Chicago He holds lecture ship in Chicago Theological Seminary. He was editor -chief of the Advance until its merger with the Congrega- tionalist. You will find in Who's Who a long list of his books in history the ology, fiction and ecclesiastical law. He taught school in the Lincoln region of
 
 cult through the mountains of that state and Tennessee He spent his boyhood in Illinois before going to his present pastorate in Oak Park. where he has been for twenty-one years. In The Soul of Abraham Lincoln" what is known as "The Creed of Abra- ham Lincoln" is incorporated by the author. as follows:
 T believe in God, the Almighty Ruler of Nations.f our great and good and merciful Maker. our Father in Heaven, who notes the fall of a sparrow, and numbers the hairs of our heads.
 T believe in His eternal truth and justice.
 T recognize the sublime truth an- nounced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history that those na- tions only are blest whose God is the Lord.
 T believe that 1t Is the duty of na- tions as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overru1ing power of God, and to invoke the influence of His Holy Spirit; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow. yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and par don.
 T believe that it is meet and right to recognize and confess the presence of the Almighty Father equally in our triumphs and in those sorrows which we may justly fear are a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptu- ous sins to the needful end of our reformation.
 T believe that the Bible is the best gift which God has ever given to men, All the good from the Savior of the world is communicate dto us through this book.
 T believe the will of God prevails. Without Him all human reliance is vain. Without the assistance of that Divine Being I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Being humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father, desire that all my works and acts may be according to His will; and that it may be so. I give thanks to the Almighty, and seek His aid
 T have solemn oath registered in heaven to finish the work I am in, in full view of my responsibility to my God, with malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right IS God gives me to see the right. Commenting those who love me to His care, as I hope in their prayers they will commend me, I look through the help of God to g joyous meeting with many loved ones gone before"