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               THE SOUL OF
             ABRAHAM LINCOLN

                   BY

            WILLIAM E. BARTON

  AUTHOR OF "A HERO IN HOMESPUN," "THE
     PRAIRIE SCHOONER," "PINE KNOT,"
                  ETC.

         NEW [Illustration] YORK
         GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY




COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




  TO MY FOUR SONS
  BRUCE, CHARLES, FREDERICK, ROBERT
  AND MY SON-IN-LAW, CLYDE




PREFACE


THE author is aware that he is dipping his net into a stream already
darkened by too much ink. The fact that there are so many books on the
religion of Abraham Lincoln is a chief reason why there should be one
more. Books on this subject are largely polemic works which followed
the publication of Holland's biography in 1865, and multiplied in 