If it were not my firm belief in an overruling Providence.
A. Lincoln.
Excerpts from a letter under date of November 21, 1910:
A GREATER POWER AND A WISER MIND
“How well I remember when I once asked you to escort me over! and I never can understand why I failed to go; a Greater Power and a Wiser Mind were guiding me, no doubt——”
To God my life was an open page,
He knew what I would be;
He knew how the tyrant passions rage,
How wind swept was all my anchorage,
And why I would drift to sea.