whowould have performed any required task at her request, and whenshe expressed her desire to have me give a public lecture in theirhall, the members of the fire company freely voted me the useof it without charge, and themselves prepared and sold thetickets; the result of which was that I realized… … When I handed it to him he smiled and said, We can afford to let ourenemies have a fling at us. Then he added more seriously, It is a sorry witthat can find no better employment nor different weapons with which to fightus than to trifle with sacred things. WE LOSE A FRIEND 95 freely on the subject…
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 · Spiritualism
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