x, 411 pp. "From the Introduction: I take pleasure in commending this book to all statesmen of every nation that they may have a better understanding of the high office to which they are called. I commend it to all ministers of the Gospel whose rare privilege it is to inspire us to climb to higher spiritual heights, and lead the way. I commend it to all educators to whom we have entrusted our most precious treasures, our sons and our daughters, whose duty and privilege it is theirs to mold, that they may have a clearer vision of the ideal citizen after whom we would like to have them patterned. I commend it to our young men and young women, to our boys and our girls, as a book to be read for the pleasure of reading, but above and beyond that, a book that will help you to a better understanding of the long road that lies before you. I would endorse it as a text book for our schools and colleges. It gives a picture of the "Great American" as a God-like human being who lived his Christianity in daily life. How else shall we know that a man is a Christian except by his deeds? And if any one ever emphasized his Christian faith it was Abraham Lincoln who lived the Life. He was Christ-like. And the author of this book proves the case in a series of illustrations taken from living history. It is with hearty pleasure that I commend this book to the multitude of readers, us "common people," Lincoln's neighbors. "God must have loved the common people, He made so many of them." Here is a book to be read with profit and instruction, giving as it does a vivid picture of him who in many ways will always be known as "The Great American." Meet your neighbor, Mr. Lincoln. -- Charles M. Sheldon"
