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Russell,  Beatrice  K. 

The  Lincoln  Way;  Nine 
Messages  of  Timely 
Warning  and  Advice 


LINCOLN  ROOM 

UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS 
LIBRARY 


MEMORIAL 

the  Class  of  1901 

founded  by 

HARLAN  HOYT  HORNER 

and 

HENRIETTA  CALHOUN  HORNER 


THE  LINCOLN  WAY 


ABRAHAM  LINCOLN   BpeaU 

from  the  Realms  of  the  Unseen  to  the  people  of 
America  and  of  the  World.  Nine  Immortal  Messages 
of  Timely  Warning  and  Advice  on  America's  present 
Dilemma  and  Future  Destiny.     ASTOUNDING! 


THE  LINCOLN  WAY 


Nine  Messages  of  Timely  Warning  and  Advice 

Received  from  Abraham  Lincoln  on 

America's  Present  Dilemma 

and  Future  Destiny 


By 


BEATRICE   K.    RUSSELL 


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LINCOLN   PHILOSOPHICAL   RESEARCH    FOUNDATION 

1401  West  75th  Street 

CLEVELAND    2,    OHIO,    U.S.A. 


PUBLISHER'S  PREFACE 

In  presenting  "The  Lincoln  Way"  which  consists  of  nine  mes- 
sages purported  to  have  come  from  Abraham  Lincoln  from  realms 
beyond  the  earth  plane  —  Lincoln  Philosophical  Research  Founda- 
tion neither  affirms  or  denies  the  authenticity  as  to  source,  of  these 
messages. 

Creditable  Psychic  Research  and  Practice,  however,  does  seem 
to  reveal  quite  substantial  evidence  that  under  certain  proper 
conditions,  there  are  those  instances  where  communicative  contact 
has  been  established  with  those  who  have  passed  from  the  earth 
plane  to  higher  realms. 

Sincere  and  capable  investigators  of  these  matters  furthermore 
assert  with  firm  conviction,  that  there  are  those  great  humanitarians 
and  other  leaders  who  have  passed  beyond  the  veil  who  are  still 
guiding  and  attempting  to  guide  the  mortals  of  earth  —  particularly 
at  those  times  when  there  are  threats  of  terror  and  great  suffering 
in  the  world  —  such  as  like  the  time  through  which  we  are  now 
passing. 

Our  investigations  and  conclusions  do  reveal  the  fact  that  these 
messages  have  been  received  under  conditions  and  circumstances 
that  support  strongly  their  authenticity.  The  modus  operandi, 
however,  is  not  to  be  confused  with  the  prattle  of  the  ordinary 
spiritist  so  commonly  encountered  in  modern  spiritualistic 
circles  where  delusion  and  trickery  are  ever  so  prevalent. 

It  has  become  an  axiomatic  fact  among  the  rank  and  file  of 
the  spiritually  minded  that  the  soul  (the  true  being)  in  the  ultimate 
is  immortal,  and  that  death  of  the  physical  body  does  not  consti- 
tute the  death  of  the  real  being,  the  Soul,  which  has  inhabited  that 
body  —  and  probably  many  other  bodies  during  its  individual 
existence. 

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Souls  vary  in  degree  of  awakening,  development  and  conscious- 
ness. Those  individuals  possessing  the  more  highly  evolved  souls 
make  up  our  great  examplar  leaders,  humanitarians,  and  saviours 
of  mankind.  Abraham  Lincoln  was  obviously  of  that  type.  He  was 
filled  with  a  great  desire  to  help  humanity.  Who  will  say  Lincoln 
is  not  now  one  of  the  Immortals?  And,  if  he  be  Immortal  would 
he  not  still  be  filled  with  that  same  great  desire  to  help  humanity  — 
and  particularly  those  of  his  own  America? 

Soul  is  of  the  basic  essence  —  and  is  operative  in  influence  on 
other  souls  regardless  of  the  particular  respective  planes  of  existence 
of  those  souls.  When  two  or  more  souls  are  found  in  rapport  — 
action  of  some  sort,  by  law,  is  usually  stimulated. 

We  have  reason  to  believe  that  such  proper  rapport  was  found 
to  exist  between  Abraham  Lincoln  and  Beatrice  K.  Russell  as  to 
make  possible  and  to  permit  the  transmittal  and  recording  of  the 
Messages  which  Lincoln  wanted  to  reach  America  and  other  peo- 
ples of  the  world. 

One  need  only  read  thoughtfully  the  Messages  to  discover  their 
sublime  wisdom  and  timeliness.  Also,  it  will  not  be  found  difficult 
in  many  instances  to  identify  the  natural  character  of  diction  of 
Abraham  Lincoln. 

We  feel  that  even  if  the  authenticity  as  to  source  of  these  Mes- 
sages could  be  completely  discounted  —  they  contain  such  potent 
precepts  of  wisdom  as  to  warrant  their  full  consideration,  exploita' 
tion  and  adoption. 

We  make  the  Messages  available  to  the  people  of  America  and 
of  the  World  with  the  sincere  hope  that  many  will  find  within 
them  the  kernels  of  Truth  that  will  lift  them  to  a  higher  Life  of 
Health,  Security  and  Peace. 

LOUIS  S.  VOSBURGH,  President 


Lincoln  Philosophical  Research  Foundation 
(A    non-profit    Corporation) 


Cleveland,  Ohio,  U.S.A. 
February  4,  1955 


AUTHOR'S  PREFACE 

I  have  considered  it  advisable  to  preface  "The  Lincoln  Way" 
with  some  word  of  explanation  as  to  how  my  receiving  of  the  Mes- 
sages of  Abraham  Lincoln  came  about. 

Although  receiving  certain  psychic  experiences  from  the  age  of 
twenty-five,  I  feel  it  should  be  stated  that  I  have  never  been 
connected  with  the  modern  spiritualistic  movement;  have  never 
attended  a  spiritualistic  meeting,  or  ever  sat  in  any  so-called  devel- 
opment group.  Any  gifts  I  may  possess  in  this  respect  have  come 
only  naturally.     I  have  never  commercialized  these  gifts. 

After  the  death  of  my  only  son  who  was  a  pilot  in  the  R.A.F. 
during  the  war,  my  health  became  very  poor  and  I  decided  to  leave 
England  in  search  of  a  warmer  climate.  I  finally  settled  in  the 
beautiful  Santa  Cruz  mountains  in  Jamaica  where  I  acquired  a 
small  house,  and  which  has  since  been  surrounded  by  a  garden 
made  by  myself. 

I  frequently  felt  my  son's  presence  near  me,  and  had  often 
been  conscious  of  his  help;  however,  I  had  harbored  no  desire  for 
communication  with  the  Other  Side.  Rather,  I  preferred  to  live 
only  a  simple  and  austere  life  devoted  to  meditation,  quiet  study, 
and  the  cultivation  of  my  garden.  I  am  a  vegetarian  and  have 
more  by  choice,  practically  none  of  the  so-called  modern  comforts 
of  life. 

In  1951  my  daughter  Pamela,  came  to  visit  me  from  the  United 
States.  She  too  believed  in  the  efficacy  of  meditation,  and  the 
entering  into  the  "silence"  for  strength  and  inspiration.  We  there- 
fore decided  to  meditate  together  at  regular  intervals  during  each 
week. 

Not  long  after  we  started  these  regular  meditation  periods  I 
found  myself  receiving  mental  messages  which  I  was  able  to  speak 
aloud  so  that  they  could  be  written  down  by  my  daughter.  These 
developed  into  a  series  of  lectures  called  "Fragments  of  Truth  from 
the  Unseen,"  which  were  later  published  in  the  Psychic  News  of 
London.  These  Messages  were  dictated  to  me  by  a  Doctor  who 
had  passed  over  in  1935  —  and  whose  identity  I  was  afterwards 
able  to  fully  prove.  I  came  to  have  a  feeling  of  implicit  trust  in 
him;  not  only  because  of  the  great  spirituality  of  the  lectures  and 
of  their  immense  help  to  me  personally,  but  because  of  the  wonder- 
ful feeling  of  sheer  goodness  that  I  experienced  whenever  he  came. 
Therefore,  two  years  later  when  he  told  me  I  must  go  to  California 


and  there  join  my  daughter  for  a  very  important  work  I  did  not 
hesitate,  but  began  immediately  to  make  plans  for  the  trip,  and  to 
overcome  the  many  difficulties   that  would  be  involved. 

Soon  after  my  arrival  in  America  the  Doctor  gave  me  the  fol- 
lowing : 

"At  this  time  one  of  the  greatest  men  that  ever  lived  feels 
that  he  must  come  back  through  this  channel  to  send  impor- 
tant Messages  to  his  nation.  This  is  most  vital  —  and  to 
you  two  who  are  not  of  this  nation  the  task  has  been  given." 

"The  one  of  whom  I  speak  was  called  when  upon  earth  — 
Abraham  Lincoln.  He  knows  that  his  nation  is  at  a  turning 
point,  and  that  help  must  be  given.  His  great  love  for  man- 
kind has  drawn  him  —  not  with  just  a  narrow  patriotism, 
but  with  a  genuine  desire  to  help  in  the  decisions  of  his  own 
country,  and  through  them  to  help  the  rest  of  the  world." 

"He  realizes  that  the  medium  has  been  well  chosen,  and 
strange  though  it  may  seem  he  feels  it  is  well  that  these  Mes- 
sages should  be  relayed  through  two  from  another  nation." 

"We  are  confident  that  you  will  carry  this  out,  and  will  realize 
to  the  full  the  solemnity  and  responsibility  of  your  task." 

The  next  day  after  sitting  in  quiet  prayer  for  a  few  moments, 
the  Messages  which  comprise  "THE  LINCOLN  WAY"  began. 
They  continued  thereafter  at  regular  intervals  until  completion 
three  weeks  later. 

I  am  not  an  American  and  know  little  about  your  Statesmen, 
National  Traditions  and  Policies.  However,  I  cannot  help  but  feel 
that  these  Messages  from  your  greatest  man  contain  a  wealth  of 
vital  wisdom  for  all  the  people  of  America  as  well  as  of  the  World. 
If  they  prove  of  worthwhile  value  for  the  good  of  mankind  I  shall 
be  only  too  happy  to  have  served  as  a  channel  for  bringing  them 
to  you. 

I  would  like  to  conclude  by  offering  my  most  grateful  thanks 
to  the  Lincoln  Philosophical  Research  Foundation  for  having  made 
possible  the  publication  of  these  Messages;  also,  a  word  of  thanks 
to  my  daughter  Pamela,  without  whose  self-effacing  help  the  work 
could  not  have  been  brought  to  fruition. 

BEATRICE  K.  RUSSELL 

Palm  Crest, 
Malvern  P.  O., 
Jamaica,  B.W.I. 


Beatrice  K.  Russell  and  Her  Modest  Mountain  Home  in  the 
•  Santa  Cruz  Mountains  of  the  British  West  Indies 


DEDICATION 

To  the  People  of  the  United  States: 

With  deep  humility  I  dedicate  these  Messages 
to  you  —  Greatest  Nation  on  Earth  —  from  your 
Greatest  Man,  in  the  sure  hope  that  you  will  heed 
them,  and  that  the  faith  in  your  high  destiny 
which  he  brought  to  you  nearly  one  hundred  years 
ago,  will  abide  with  you  always. 

BEATRICE  K.  RUSSELL 


COPYRIGHT,   1955,  BY  BEATRICE  K.  RUSSELL 


CONTENTS 


I  PEACE  11 

II  THE  WHY  AND  HOW  OF  THE  MESSAGES 17 

III  WORLD  FEDERATION 23 

IV  RELIGION,  HEALTH,  EDUCATION  29 

V  CURRENCY,  RIGHT  LIVING,  LEISURE 35 

VI  TO   WOMEN 39 

VII  TO  MEN 45 

VIII  QUESTIONS  AND  ANSWERS  ABOUT  THE  UNSEEN  49 

IX  EVILS  IN  AMERICAN  LIFE 55 


THE  LINCOLN  WAY 

July  10,  1953 

MESSAGE  ONE 

PEACE 

Men  and  Women  of  America!  I  call  you!  From 
the  North,  from  the  South,  from  the  East,  and  from 
the  West  —  I  call  you! 

From  our  possessions  overseas,  in  planes,  in 
ships,  in  submarines,  on  mountains,  in  valleys  — 
Americans,  all  over  the  world  —  I  call  you! 

This  is  my  message  —  Abraham  Lincoln's  mes- 
sage. Look  back,  look  back  on  the  years  when  I 
was  with  you.  They  were  years  that  were  fraught 
with  trouble  and  difficulties.  I  led  you  then,  and 
I  am  privileged  to  lead  you  now.  You  remember 
I  called  you  to  a  mighty  Cause,  to  fight  a  great 
evil  in  our  land.  And  we  conquered.  The  spirit 
of  America  awakened,  and  together  we  fought 
our  battles  and  we  won.  Why?  Because  we  knew 
that  our  Cause  was  God's  Cause.  God  helped  us 
then.    God  help  you  now. 

The  time  has  now  come  when  I  call  you  again 
to  a  mightier,  grander  Crusade.  But  mark  you 
this:  not  fought  with  weapons;  not  fought  with  the 

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blood  of  your  countrymen;  not  fought  in  a  spirit  of 
conquest;  or  with  any  of  the  pride  and  panoply 
of  war.    I  call  you,  now,  on  a  nobler  Crusade. 

For  many  of  you,  my  sayings  will  be  hard.  In 
your  hearts  you  will  be  minded  to  turn  away,  to 
close  your  ears.  This,  Americans,  is  a  Crusade  for 
Peace.  Hold  that  thought  fast.  Keep  it  in  the  holy 
altars  of  the  spirit,  which  lie  deep  in  the  very  centre 
of  your  being.  Each  one  of  you  —  rich  and  poor, 
of  every  class,  creed,  and  color — you  must  hold 
this  picture  of  Peace  in  your  hearts. 

In  spite  of  the  terrible  turmoil  of  the  world,  in 
spite  of  the  clamoring  of  nations,  in  spite  of  the 
shouts  of  those  who  wish  to  stir  up  the  passions  of 
the  mob,  you  must  wage  this  Crusade  with  all  the 
fervor  and  the  noble  endeavors  with  which  you 
fought  our  Cause  many  years  ago. 

It  lies  not  so  much,  Americans,  I  emphasize  this, 
not  so  much  with  the  leaders  of  your  nation,  but 
with  the  common  man. 

This  task  may  seem  very  difficult  to  you.  You  will 
say  you  want  definite  directions,  leadership,  wis- 
dom, and  that  it  is  beyond  your  power.  Not  so, 
Americans,  not  so.  For  believe  this,  for  I  know, 
having  been  a  leader  among  you:  I  know  that  this 
Peace  can  only  come  to  pass  through  the  efforts 
of  the  common  man. 

You  must  recognize  that  you  stand,  the  whole 
of  America  stands,  at  the  parting  of  the  ways. 

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One  could  compare  the  situation  to  that  of  one 
man,  alone  on  a  mountain  top,  in  the  midst  of  a 
great  and  violent  thunderstorm.  The  clouds  bend 
over  him,  thunder  rolls,  and  lightning  flashes.  But 
as  the  man  stands  there  in  terror  and  calls  for  help 
from  Almighty  God,  a  light  is  seen  in  the  far  dis- 
tance, which  grows  and  spreads.  The  blackness 
of  the  storm  disappears,  calmness  reigns,  and  the 
Peace  of  God  comes  to  that  man.  So  it  should  be 
with  you,  Americans. 

By  the  power  of  prayer  and  the  certainty  that 
God  will  guide  our  nation,  as  He  has  guided  it  in 
the  past,  you,  in  the  terrible  moments  that  are  now 
drawing  near  to  the  world,  will  be  able  to  avert 
the  approaching  storm. 

Think,  Americans.  Turn  your  eyes  for  one  mo- 
ment to  the  appalling  catastrophies  that  could  be 
brought  about  by  Man,  mark  you,  not  by  God  — 
horrors  unimaginable,  which  would  overwhelm  the 
entire  world. 

Now  think  of  the  other  side.  You  know  that  you 
are  the  mightiest  nation  in  the  world.  Shall  it  not 
be  then  that  you  will  be  in  the  vanguard  of  Peace. 
Your  scientists,  your  inventors  will  be  enabled  to 
bring  about  such  benefits  upon  the  human  race 
as  have  never  before  been  known  in  the  history  of 
the  world.  All  these  are  intended  to  help  Human- 
ity. The  story  of  the  American  race  can  go  down 
in  the  records  of  the  historians  of  the  future, 
showing  that  a  mighty  people  took  the  lead,  in 

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crucial  times,  amongst  the  other  nations  upon  earth, 
saying:  "No  more,  no  more  will  we  slaughter.  No 
more  will  we  suffer  this  terrible  evil  of  War.  We 
will  lead  you,  we  will  lead  you  into  Peace.  We  are 
strong  enough.  We  fear  no  one.  We  love  Humanity. 
We  want  nothing  from  other  nations.  We  will 
suffer  no  longer  this  evil  to  exist  among  us." 

But  remember  my  words.  Can  you,  in  truth,  say 
at  the  present  time  that  you  fear  nothing  and  no 
one?  You  know  well  enough  that  Fear  is  one  of 
the  greatest  causes  of  War.  You  Must  Not  Fear. 
How  is  it  possible  that  if  you  believe  truly  in  God, 
you  can  ever  have  one  moment  of  Fear.  Believe 
this,  Americans,  that  if  you  allow  this  Fear  to  exist 
in  your  hearts,  you  are  not,  I  tell  you,  true  believers 
in  the  living  God. 

Know  this,  then,  that  this  is  what  you  must  do. 
Advocate  Peace  among  you  boldly.  Often  in  the 
silence  of  your  room,  pray  fervently  with  a  real 
faith  that  your  prayers  will  be  answered.  Pray  for 
Peace.  Those  of  you  who  are  in  the  position  of 
leaders,  in  small  groups  or  large,  make  sure  that 
in  whatever  you  may  be  teaching,  that  there  will 
be  an  influence  for  Peace. 

In  a  larger  and  more  far-reaching  manner,  when 
the  elections  of  your  nation  take  place,  make  very 
certain  that  the  man  for  whom  you  vote  will  place 
the  Peace  of  the  World  in  the  forefront  of  his  policy. 

Men  and  Women  of  America,  believe  now  that 

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it  is  Abraham  Lincoln  who  speaks  to  you  from  the 
Other  Side.  Heed  my  words  in  these  messages. 
God  bless  you  all. 

God  bless  America. 


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THE  LINCOLN  WAY 

July  11,  1953 

MESSAGE  TWO 

THE   WHY   AND   HOW   OF   THE   MESSAGES 

Men  and  Women  of  America!  Listen!  You  will 
be  thinking  many  things  with  regard  to  my  first 
message.  You  will  be  saying  amongst  yourselves: 
"Abraham  Lincoln  says  he  calls  us,  but  he  tells  us 
nothing  concrete,  nothing  in  terms  of  party  politics, 
no  mention  of  leaders.    What  are  we  to  do?" 

My  friends,  these  things  are  not  intended:  I 
cannot,  and  it  would  not  be  right  for  me  to  lay 
down  details  of  a  nation-wide  campaign  for  Peace. 
God  does  not  issue  blueprints  for  a  nation  to  fol- 
low. How  easy  that  would  be  for  you,  but  how  dis- 
astrous for  a  young  nation  to  follow  progress  in 
this  manner.  You  can  take  an  example  from  fam- 
ily life.  If  a  father  told  his  little  son  exactly  what 
to  do  each  hour  of  the  day,  would  the  son  ever  be- 
come adult?  We  know  it  would  not  be  so.  You 
have  only  to  study  history  to  see  that  nations  are 
not  guided  in  this  way.  Terrible  calamities  are  not 
avoided.  And  in  that  way,  both  individuals  and 
nations  are  taught  that  Faith  —  Faith  under  over- 
whelming disaster — brings  its  reward. 

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Think  of  England  in  the  Battle  of  Britain  when 
almost  everything  but  Faith  had  gone.  Think,  too, 
of  the  Faith  of  your  Pilgrim  Fathers  and  dwell  on  it. 

You  will  raise  now  another  question:  You  will 
say:  "Abraham  Lincoln,  prove  your  identity.  If  it 
is  you  — you,  in  the  Spirit,  speaking  to  your  nation 
now  —  give  us  proof.  In  other  words,  prove  Sur- 
vival." 

My  friends,  I  speak  these  words  from  a  holy 
place,  in  a  noble  company.  I  will  not  degrade  the 
presence  of  the  holy  spirits  amongst  whom  I  stand, 
by  putting  myself  on  the  defensive,  by  protesting 
I  am  not  a  charlatan.  If  you  cannot  feel  the  sin- 
cerity and  the  purpose  which  filled  the  speeches 
of  Abraham  Lincoln  in  the  days  gone  by,  repeated 
in  these  messages,  I  will  not  satisfy  you.  Read  no 
further.  The  messages  are  not  for  you.  Skeptics 
there  will  always  be,  and  it  would  not  matter  one 
jot  or  tittle  if  I  gave  them  chapter  and  verse  of  my 
past  life,  for  they  would  even  then  find  reasons 
for  not  believing.  One,  the  greatest  of  all,  rebuked 
the  doubting  Thomas,  and  throughout  the  ages, 
there  will  always  be  these  unbelievers. 

And  now  I  tell  you  a  wonderful  thing.  You  ask, 
"Why  have  these  messages  to  be  delivered  now?" 
And  you  ask,  too,  "How  are  they  being  delivered?" 

They  are  being  delivered  now,  because  —  and 
this  is  the  wonderful  thing  —  it  is  because  they  are 
being  brought  by  the  combination  of  immensely 
powerful  thoughts,  coming  from  every  part  of  Amer- 

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ica  —  thoughts  and  prayers  of  great  humility,  as 
well  as  anxious  questioning.  You  are  all  asking: 
"What  is  Truth?  Where  are  we  going?  To  whom 
can  we  turn?  Is  there  a  God  at  all?  What  future 
have  we?  We,  who  thought  ourselves  so  strong, 
so  powerful,  are  beginning  to  feel  so  lost.  We  long 
to  understand  Life  and  we  cannot." 

Now  I  want  to  tell  you  all,  what  some  of  you 
already  know,  that  Thought  is  a  Substance.  It  is  so 
powerful  that  no  words  can  describe  it.  Individual 
thought  can  compass  an  immense  range;  but  when 
a  great  nation  can  send  out  powerful  vibrations, 
and  those  vibrations  are  continuous  over  a  period 
of  years  with  the  same  tinge  of  thought  this  fans 
out  and  makes  itself  felt,  and  thereby  attracts  like 
a  magnet  powerful  rays,  through  which  the  power 
to  receive  these  thoughts  on  another  plane,  and  the 
power  to  deal  with  them,  is  given.  That  is  one 
reason  why  I  am  privileged  to  send  these  messages 
to  you.  You  understand,  it  is  your  own  act  that 
has  made  it  possible.  Ponder  on  this;  for  if  you 
can  understand  and  believe  it,  you  will  realize  that 
it  is  what  you  might  call  a  "miracle." 

Now  the  other  aspect.  I  have  told  you  why  these 
messages  are  coming,  and  you  also  ask  me  how. 
I  bid  you  all  —  study  to  learn  more  of  what  has 
already  been  vouchsafed  to  the  world  of  the  Life 
beyond  Death.  Do  not  close  your  eyes  and  ears 
in  blind  stubbornness  to  the  facts,  and  I  use  the 
word  "facts"  advisedly.  You  will  then  find  it  easier 
to  appreciate  the  numberless  ways  in  which  we, 

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who  have  passed  over,  are  able  to  help  you  in 
your  daily  life.  So  constantly  does  this  happen  that 
even  the  most  biased  and  the  most  sceptical  among 
you  have  the  knowledge  in  your  minds,  that  there 
must  be  something  functioning  outside  the  known 
laws  of  Physics. 

I  will  now  give  you  the  answer  as  to  how  these 
messages  are  coming.  When  they  are  printed,  you 
will  know  and  be  able  to  prove  that  what  I  am  now 
going  to  say  is  correct  in  every  detail. 

Two  women,  a  mother  and  daughter,  not  of  your 
race  or  land,  have  been  brought  separately  from 
far  distant  places  on  the  earth  to  your  own  country. 
To  get  there  meant  to  both  of  them  the  conquest  of 
apparently  insuperable  difficulties.  They  had  no 
funds;  one  of  them  was  in  poor  health.  Month 
after  month  the  struggle  went  on.  Neither  of  these 
women  knew  the  reason  why  they  should  be  drawn 
to  a  certain  spot,  so  far  away  from  their  homes. 
But  they  both  had  Faith.  When  the  time  came, 
every  difficulty  was  solved.  I  have  told  you  these 
facts,  not  in  any  way  to  publicize  these  women, 
but  to  show  you  what  Faith  can  accomplish.  In 
a  later  message  I  will  give  you  details  as  to  how 
communication  was  established. 

More  and  more  the  nations  of  the  whole  world 
are  becoming  aware  of  the  Truths  which  lie  in  the 
realm  of  Psychic  knowledge.  These  Truths  I,  my- 
self, experienced  when  on  earth.  Not  only  are  your 
scientists  aware  of  them,  but  the  religions  of  the 

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world  are  putting  them  forward.  This  is  being  done 
as  quietly  and  unobtrusively  as  possible,  but  it  is, 
nevertheless,  a  very  real  fact;  and,  my  friends, 
when  you  hear  narrow-minded  people  speak  of 
these  things  as  evil,  ask  yourself  the  question: 
Would  Almighty  God  allow  His  churches  to  be 
used,  for  example,  for  Spiritual  Healing  if  there  was 
anything  evil  in  this  practice? 

I  have  digressed  in  this  message  because  I  knew 
that  immediately  publication  took  place,  these  ques- 
tions and  controversies  would  arise;  and  by  mis- 
taken people  would  be  used  to  obscure  their  true 
meaning  and  obstruct  their  true  aim. 

I  know  that  that  is,  alas,  only  too  true  of  human 
nature  when  confronted  with  pure  Truth.  There 
are  people  to  whom  goodness  and  virtue  are  quali- 
ties which  must  be  destroyed  if  possible.  They  fear 
them;  they  hate  them,  for  they  show  them  the  black- 
ness of  their  own  hearts.  At  this  time  there  are 
many  people  perverted  in  this  way.  But  I  say  to 
you,  in  answer  to  your  own  thoughts  on  this  matter, 
that  I  can  therefore,  in  these  messages,  contact  only 
the  few.  I  tell  you,  however,  that  it  is  enough.  Do 
not  fear.  Were  there  not  once  only  Twelve  who 
received  a  Message  which  spread  over  the  entire 
world? 

I  will  endeavor,  in  the  next  message,  to  give  you 
broad  outlines  of  policies  without  politics,  on  the 
lines  of  which  America  should  go  forward  in  the 
coming  years. 

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I  do  not  need  to  tell  you  these  are  solemn  mo- 
ments in  the  history  of  America.  On  your  country, 
more  than  any  other  throughout  the  entire  world, 
lies  a  heavy  responsibility.  I  warn  you  that  if  you 
should,  at  this  stage  of  your  history,  lose  the  faculty 
to  rise  above  material  things,  and  lose  sight  of  the 
fact  that  you  are  all  living  souls  and  immortal  — 
if  you  should  forget  this  and  not  endeavor  to  cul- 
tivate the  spiritual  part  of  your  nature  —  then  you 
will  be  stricken  down. 

Pray  to  God  that  you  may  be  lifted  up  to  lead, 
instead  of  being  cast  into  the  depths  to  be  destroyed. 

God  bless  America. 


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THE  LINCOLN  WAY 

July  16,  1953 

MESSAGE   THREE 

WORLD  FEDERATION 

If  Abraham  Lincoln,  spoke  in  my  last  message  of 
policies  without  politics.  I  wish  now  to  outline  what 
should  be  America's  main  policy  for  the  future. 
There  is  a  tremendous  step  to  be  taken,  a  step 
which  will  call  for  great  sacrifice  and  a  love  for 
Humanity  in  general. 

I  refer  to  God's  great  plan  for  the  whole  world; 
that  is,  Federation:  the  complete  unity  of  all  na- 
tions. It  is  a  project  so  great  that  it  almost  con- 
founds the  imagination. 

Americans,  you  will  lead  in  this.  You  have  with 
God's  help  achieved  a  Federation  of  your  own. 
When  you  speak  of  the  "United"  States,  do  you 
realize  what  a  wonderful  achievement  that  is? 

You  are  the  greatest  example  in  the  world  today 
of  the  success  of  Federation.  Look  round  the  world 
and  see  what  is  happening.  The  first  steps  are 
being  taken.  Groups  of  small  nations  and  groups 
of  small  islands  have  in  some  instances  already 
accomplished  this,  whilst  others  are  considering  it. 

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But,  and  I  want  to  give  you  a  solemn  warning.  In 
every  case  it  is  the  motive  that  counts;  and,  there- 
fore, you  will  find  that  groups  possessed  of  greed 
and  who  wish  to  federate  solely  for  self-aggran- 
dizement will  fail,  because  their  motive  is  evil. 
They  want  to  get,  not  to  give.  But  where  the  motive 
is  good,  where  the  motive  is  for  the  benefit  of  the 
world,  this  or  that  group  will  succeed,  in  spite  of 
the  sacrifices  entailed. 

This  process  will  continue  in  ever  widening  cir- 
cles; this  great  Idea  will  come  to  pass,  culminating 
in  the  unity  of  the  world. 

Events  are  moving  quickly.  Within  the  last  few 
years  you  have  seen  the  British  Empire  die,  and 
out  of  the  ashes  has  risen  a  far  better  thing:  the 
British  Commonwealth  of  Nations.  It  is  succeeding, 
now,  because  the  motive  is  good.  In  just  the  same 
way,  Americans,  your  United  States  are  succeed- 
ing because  your  motive,  in  this  respect,  is  for  the 
benefit  of  each  individual  soul  in  your  country. 
And,  therefore,  it  cannot  fail. 

But  in  playing  your  part,  as  you  must  do,  to  bring 
about  the  Federation  of  the  World,  you  have  to 
face  a  hard  and  stern  test;  for  the  critics  will  say: 
"We  are  powerful,  we  are  strong,  we  need  no  help, 
we  will  go  ahead  alone."  No,  no,  Americans,  that 
is  not  God's  plan. 

You  are  to  give,  to  give  increasingly.  You  are 
to  reach  out  to  all  the  nations,  and  you  are  to  point 
to  the  Way  that  must  be  followed. 

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Time  and  time  again  there  will  be  setbacks.  There 
will  be  violence  and  slaughter,  and  the  world  will 
sink  into  a  trough  of  failure;  but  always  you  must 
keep  in  men's  mind  this  Idea:  the  Idea  that  the 
Federation  of  the  World  will  bring  to  mankind 
immense  blessings. 

For  it  will  obliterate  War  altogether. 

So  much  at  the  moment,  then,  for  the  view  I  want 
to  place  before  you  for  nations  and  for  America  in 
particular.  Now  I  must  speak  of  the  individual 
and  of  how  this  tremendous  thing  can  be  brought 
about,  for,  as  I  have  said,  all  things  lie  in  the  last 
resort  with  the  individual. 

The  plan  is  for  the  world  to  have  a  figurehead, 
a  Symbol  of  Federation:  a  Symbol  which  will  repre- 
sent all  good  and  beautiful  qualities,  something 
that  continually  uplifts,  and  will  represent  to  each 
individual  the  highest  character  attainments  to 
which  he  or  she  can  aspire. 

I  cannot  go  into  details,  but  you  may  liken  this 
in  your  minds  to  the  sacred  fire  of  Olympus,  which 
was  to  the  Greeks  a  holy  symbol. 

In  considering  individuals  in  Federation,  you  will 
have  to  consider  laws  and  customs,  characteristics 
of  each  nation,  and  how  they  can  be  blended.  In 
time  to  come,  there  will  be  great  alterations  in  your 
marriage  laws.  Home  and  children  must  be  looked 
on  as  a  solemn  trust,  and  the  latter  to  be  accounted 
for,  not  only  in  your  lives  on  earth,  but  in  your 

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lives  to  come.  In  Marriage  the  solemn  vows  will 
once  again  mean  what  God  meant  them  to  mean. 
People  will  no  longer  take  them  lightly.  Education 
will  be  adapted  and  altered  with  this  end  in  sight. 
Husbands  and  wives  will  be  required  to  educate 
themselves  for  this#  as  for  other  professions. 

No  nation  will  produce  more  children  than  is 
necessary  for  the  best  development  of  itself,  in 
conjunction  with  the  needs  of  the  world;  for  it  is 
the  world,  remember,  and  in  terms  of  the  world, 
that  you  will  all  in  the  future  think  and  speak. 
These  children  will  be  brought  into  the  world  under 
the  best  possible  cirmumstances,  both  wives  and 
husbands  dedicating  themselves  to  this  supremely 
important  task  by  special  study  and  prayer.  Thus, 
the  citizens  of  the  New  World  will  be  worthy  of 
their  citizenship.  And  you  will  see,  as  you  think 
on  these  lines,  how  much  evil  will  be  abandoned. 

As  you  look  round  the  world  today,  does  it  not 
seem  to  you  that  a  very  Heaven  could  be  made 
out  of  the  Hell  that  now  exists? 

Nations  will  no  longer  speak  proudly  of  "posses- 
sions," or  "owning  other  nations."  Restrictions  of 
every  kind  could  be  broken  down,  under  the  new 
regime. 

I  bring  you  this  message,  Americans,  yet  I  know 
full  well  with  what  distrust  and  dislike  many  of  you 
will  regard  Federation.  You  will  feel  that  in  taking 
this  step,  you  may  yourselves  be  submerged  and 

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lost.    These  feelings  must  be  put  aside,  for  the  foun- 
dation of  them  is  selfishness. 

Nationalism  was  necessary  for  you  to  build  your- 
selves up  and  to  form  an  example  of  Federation,  in 
miniature,  before  the  world.  Now,  however,  this 
feeling  of  Nationhood  has  become  too  extreme,  and 
makes  for  War.  The  transition  will  take  time  and 
will  be,  indeed,  a  period  of  testing,  during  which 
there  will  be  a  spiritual  purging  and,  at  length, 
finally  cleansed  and  freed  from  all  motive  except 
Altruism,  you  will  take  your  place  in  the  Brother- 
hood of  Nations  and  will  finally  accomplish  God's 
purpose. 

Meanwhile,  it  is  essential  that  your  children 
should  be  guided  now,  through  Education,  to  this 
great  Ideal.  As  this  is  done,  each  generation  will 
impress  it  more  powerfully  until  it  becomes  woven 
into  the  very  centre  of  your  lives. 

Does  it  seem  impossible  to  you,  now,  that  it  could 
ever  come  to  pass?  Remember  that  with  God, 
nothing  is  impossible. 

God  bless  America. 


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THE  LINCOLN  WAY 

July  17,  1953 

MESSAGE   FOUR 

RELIGION,  HEALTH,  EDUCATION 

You  will  perceive,  Americans,  that  I,  Abraham 
Lincoln,  am  giving  you  in  these  messages  a  Way 
of  Life.  Do  not  dismiss  them  with  the  idea  that  I 
am  speaking  of  a  Utopia  in  the  far  distance  of 
Time.  Some  of  these  ideas  are  much  nearer  to  you 
now  than  you  can  imagine. 

To  enter  this  Way,  there  are,  symbolically  speak- 
ing, certain  Gates  through  which  you  will  have  to 
pass.   I  will  deal  with  a  few  of  these  in  this  message. 

First,  the  Gate  of  Religion.  Religion  will  become 
universal.  It  is  recognized  more  in  the  East  than 
in  the  West  that  Man  cannot  be  treated  as  one  of 
a  herd.  Humanity  cannot  be  poured  into  a  mold. 
Those  in  the  West  are  at  the  present  time  tending 
towards  the  herd  complex.  This  is  Retrogression. 
Individuality  must  assert  itself,  and  it  is  for  this 
reason  that  I  speak  of  a  universal  Religion. 

At  first  sight  this  may  seem  a  contradiction  in 
words,  but  it  is  not  so,  as  I  will  show  you.  You 
must  in  due  time  get  rid  of  all  Creeds,  Dogmas,  and 

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Doctrines.  It  is  impossible  for  people  to  think  or 
believe  identically.  And  so,  temples,  churches,  and 
sanctuaries  will  be  built  as  universal  places  where 
all  may  come  without  fear.  Each  will  be  a  real 
meeting  place  for  God  and  the  Soul.  They  will  be 
open  day  and  night;  and  no  one,  whatever  his 
belief  or  his  status  in  life,  will  have  any  feelings  of 
doubt  as  to  whether  he  can  enter  or  not. 

As  I  will  show  presently,  no  money  or  material 
rewards  will  be  attached  to  the  management  of 
these  buildings. 

In  these  ways  Religion  will  lose  its  narrowness 
and  bigotry,  which  sullies  its  name  at  the  present 
time.  The  Churches  have  been  backward,  indeed, 
in  this  matter,  for  the  very  fact  that  they  have  built 
separate  enclosures  for  separate  beliefs  makes  for 
jealousy  and  bitterness. 

Clergy  and  priests,  all  over  the  world,  will  cease 
to  exist  as  a  separate  class.  There  will  be  no  fi- 
nance connected  any  longer  with  God's  teachings. 
Surely,  Americans,  you  should  have  learnt  this  long 
before,  through  the  teachings  of  Christ  and  the 
other  Masters  who  have  come  to  tell  you  these 
Truths. 

Who,  then,  will  teach?  There  will  be  men  who, 
by  prolonged  study  and  development,  will  possess 
the  inner  urge  to  help  their  fellow  men  in  the  search 
for  God.  They  will  be  known  by  the  lives  they 
lead;  and  when  instruction  is  necessary,  they  will 
be  there  to  give  it. 

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Because  the  taint  of  money  will  be  no  longer 
attached  to  the  worship  of  God,  the  words  of  the 
teachers  will  fall  with  the  accent  of  Truth  on  men's 
hearts. 

But,  remember,  there  is  much  to  be  done  before 
this  state  of  affairs  can  come  to  pass,  for  intolerance 
is  now  just  as  much  rife  as  it  was  in  the  days  of  the 
Spanish  Inquisition. 

I  leave  this  now  to  turn  to  lesser  matters,  but 
which,  however,  impinge  directly  on  it. 

I  speak  now  of  the  Gate  of  Health.  Dis-Ease,  like 
Crime,  will  come  to  be  regarded  as  the  result  of 
an  unquiet  Mind.  Doctors,  as  you  know  them,  will 
not  be  functioning.  The  surgeon  and  his  knife  will 
no  longer  be  needed.  Through  discoveries,  some 
of  which  are  very  near,  it  will  be  found  that  the 
human  body  can  be  insulated  from  many  of  the  ail- 
ments which  beset  it.  This  civilization  is  bringing, 
in  its  train,  fresh  diseases;  but  this  situation  has 
nearly  reached  the  crest  of  the  wave,  and  the  vic- 
tory over  harmful  bacilli  is  drawing  nearer.  Medi- 
cine will  develop  on  different  lines,  and  the  neces- 
sity for  physicians  in  their  present  capacity  will 
no  longer  exist. 

There  will  be,  what  I  will  call  in  this  message, 
Comforters  —  men  and  women  who  have  trained 
their  minds  to  deal  with  Dis-Ease  from  a  psycho- 
logical standpoint.  Again,  this  will  be  untouched 
by  any  thought  of  gain.  It  will  be  regarded,  as 
indeed  in  olden  days  the  study  of  medicine  was 

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regarded,  as  a  holy  thing;  compare  this,  for  one 
moment,  with  the  schemes,  advertising,  and  ideas 
of  the  present  day.  And  make  certain  in  your  minds 
that  you  will  do  your  utmost  to  bring  this  infinitely 
happier  state  of  things  to  pass. 

The  last  Gate  to  the  Way,  of  which  I  speak  in 
this  message,  is  Education.  There  will  be,  and  this 
is  much  nearer  than  you  imagine,  a  Universal  Lan- 
guage. You  will  know  that  already  experiments 
have  been  made  in  this,  but  that  the  world  was  not 
ready  for  them.  But  even  now  there  are  skilled  men 
working  on  this.  Can  you  picture  the  tremendous 
benefits  that  will  thus  be  brought  to  mankind? 

The  greatest  discoveries  that  are  made  all  over 
the  world  will  be  pooled  and  put  to  the  advantage 
of  all  peoples,  because  the  use  of  a  Universal 
Language  will  tend  to  dismiss  doubt  and  suspicion. 
When  this  comes  to  pass,  it  will  be  hailed  by  all 
thinking  people  as  the  greatest  benefit  that  has 
ever  been  given  to  man. 

Education  will  not  be  the  short  temporary  factor 
in  men's  lives  that  it  is  today.  It  will  not  only  be 
possible  but  certain  that  men  and  women  can  study 
all  their  lives;  and  because  they  will  be  doing  this, 
their  mental  powers  will  increase.  It  will  consist, 
too,  of  a  different  aggregation  of  knowledge  than 
exists  today.  The  multiplicity  of  languages  has 
become  a  handicap  to  education.  You  will  find 
that  new  methods  of  assimilating  knowledge  will 
alter  the  whole  perspective  of  Life,  so  often  at  the 

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present  time  given  over  to  trivialities.     Life  will, 
indeed,  become  worth  while. 

Are  not  all  these  things  worth  struggling  for,  as 
you  have  struggled  in  earlier  times  for  noble 
things?  I  would  ask  you  to  hold  your  heads  high 
in  the  hope  of  a  New  World. 

Remember,  when  your  hearts  are  heavy  with  the 
burden  of  the  evil  and  suffering  in  the  world  to- 
day—  remember,  it  is  written:  "Behold,  I  make  all 
things  new." 

God  bless  America. 


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THE  LINCOLN  WAY 

July  18,  1953 

MESSAGE    FIVE 

CURRENCY,  RIGHT  LIVING,  LEISURE 

After  my  last  message,  which  dealt  with  the 
things  of  the  Future,  you  will  require  of  me  words 
with  regard  to  your  lives  in  the  present  time.  Some 
of  these  words  may  seem  harsh  to  you,  but  you 
will  understand  that  I  have  a  message  which  I 
must  give. 

Americans,  the  majority  of  you  live  too  much  on 
the  surface  of  things.  You  do  not  delve  deeply 
enough  into  questions  that  are  inter-related  with 
your  daily  life.  You  must  realize  that  the  founda- 
tion of  all  Life  is  God,  and  that  all  things  are  bound 
up  in  the  last  resort  with  Him. 

I  can  prove  this  to  you  by  a  simple  example.  Let 
us  take  something  which  now  dominates  your  lives 
to  a  very  great  extent.    I  speak  of  Money. 

Now,  many  of  you  are  aware  that  there  is  some- 
thing wrong  with  your  money  system;  you  realize 
that  reforms  in  this  are  necessary  and  overdue. 
Reform  of  the  monetary  system,  you  will  agree,  is 
bound  up  with  questions  of  import  and  export,  of 

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balance  of  trade#  of  production.  In  that  connection 
it  will  readily  come  to  your  minds  that  a  system 
which  can  bring  about  the  destruction  of  food  in 
one  part  of  the  globe,  while  people  are  dying  for 
that  very  food  in  another  partf  is  a  system  which 
has  grave  faults.  Production,  then#  brings  us  im- 
mediately to  the  problems  of  labor;  of  movements 
of  populations;  of  immigration  and  unemployment; 
and  that,  in  turnf  brings  us  to  control  of  population. 
Control  of  population  brings  us  to  the  science  of 
Eugenics.  This,  again,  brings  us  to  right  living;  and 
right  living  brings  us  to  the  study  of  the  spiritual 
side  of  Life;  and  the  spiritual  side  of  Life  means 
God  in  us.  So  you  see  that  we  start  in  this  instance 
with  Currency  Reform,  and  the  answer  brings  us 
to  God. 

You  will  find  that  in  the  same  way  that  I  have 
analyzed  this  for  you  —  all  things,  all  subjects  what- 
ever, have  their  answer  in  the  search  for  God.  You 
must,  all  of  you  who  can,  study  these  and  other 
problems;  for  many  books  have  been  written  on 
these  subjects,  and  it  is  up  to  you  to  find  out  the 
answers  for  yourselves. 

Remember,  one  great  fault  among  you  is  that  you 
are  all  so  liable  to  think  in  terms  only  of  your  own 
country:  America  —  first,  last,  and  all  the  time.  This 
must  cease  before  you  can  progress. 

From  your  pulpits  Altruism  is  preached  for  the 
individual,  but  not  enough  is  made  of  the  necessity 
of  Altruism  among  the  nations. 

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Now  I  turn  to  what  may  seem  to  you  a  small 
matter  in  your  daily  life,  but  it  is  one  that  becomes 
each  year  more  pressing.  I  refer  to  the  subject  of 
your  leisure  hours,  and  how  you  are  going  to  use 
them.  Working  hours  are  getting  shorter  because 
of  the  increase  in  inventions  and  machinery.  This 
should  be  all  to  your  good,  but  it  is  not.  You  do 
not  need  me  to  tell  you  that  you  are  wasting  pre- 
cious days,  weeks,  and  even  years  of  your  lives 
during  your  leisure.  In  your  places  of  entertain- 
ment—  watching  often  degrading  sights  —  in  your 
perpetual  rush  from  one  place  to  another,  you  are, 
in  fact  during  most  of  your  free  time,  preventing 
yourselves  from  developing  spiritually. 

You  cannot  blind  yourselves  to  these  facts.  This 
state  of  affairs  is  increasing,  and  the  thinkers  of 
your  nation  realize  this  and  are  searching  for  reme- 
dies. Hence,  in  small  ways  people  are  being  asked 
to  lead  more  simple  lives,  to  enjoy  guietness,  to 
work  with  their  hands  in  various  crafts  and  hobbies, 
and  to  spend  as  much  time  as  possible  with  Nature. 
Do  your  utmost  to  forward  these  projects. 

And  this  brings  me  to  urge  upon  you  the  culti- 
vation of  the  Beautiful  in  your  lives.  You  will  ap- 
preciate how  much  you  have  lost  of  this  when  you 
look  back  only  a  few  years.  Where,  Americans, 
are  your  Poets?  Where  are  the  successors  of  Long- 
fellow, Walt  Whitman,  and  that  great  thinker, 
Emerson?  How  is  it,  do  you  suppose,  that  there  are 
none  of  that  calibre  alive  today?  Art  and  Poetry 
are  the  expression  of  the  spiritual  life  of  a  nation, 

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How  can  you  in  your  present  lives  —  bound  up  as 
they  are  with  the  pursuit  of  money,  with  the  making 
of  things  destined  for  destruction  —  how  can  you 
even  think  of  things  of  Beauty? 

You  have  an  inner  urge  within  you  that  makes 
you  desire  these  things  almost  without  your  being 
aware  of  it.  All  you  know  is  that  you  are  dissatis- 
fied with  your  way  of  Life,  easy  and  comfortable 
in  many  ways  as  it  is.  A  great  restlessness  pos- 
sesses you.  You  travel  all  over  the  world;  you  take 
up  first  this  thing,  then  that;  you  think  out  exciting 
projects,  such  as  rocketing  into  Space;  yet  all  these 
things  leave  you  empty  and  void. 

But  I  tell  you,  Americans,  if  you  can  turn  from 
your  present  way  of  life  before  it  is  too  late  —  and 
this  rests  entirely  with  the  individual  mark  you,  not 
with  your  governments  —  if  you  can  have  the  cour- 
age and  faith  to  understand  how  vital  this  is,  you 
will  shorten  a  period  of  great  misery  which  lies 
ahead  of  you. 

The  day  will  then  come  when  you  will  return  to 
your  homes  and  find  in  the  beautiful  symbolism  of 
those  two  poets,  Maeterlinck  and  Tennyson,  that 
the  Blue  Bird  of  Truth  and  the  Holy  Grail,  for  which 
you  have  been  seeking,  were  in  those  homes  all  the 
time,  but  you  had  not  the  vision  to  see  them. 

God  bless  America. 


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THE  LINCOLN  WAY 

July  23,  1953 

MESSAGE   SIX 

TO  WOMEN 

My  message  today  is  to  the  women  of  America. 
I  wish  that  I  could  burn  it  into  your  hearts  with 
the  flaming  torch  of  Truth.  I  cannot  impress  upon 
you  too  strongly  how  important  and  vital  this  mes- 
sage is. 

Look  back,  women  of  America,  look  back  to  those 
pioneers:  those  women  who  founded  your  race  in 
great  hardship,  in  continual  self-sacrifice  under 
almost  impossible  conditions  of  living,  often  giving 
their  lives  that  their  children  might  live. 

Look  at  yourselves  today.  You  say  you  have 
Freedom.  What  has  it  brought  you?  Where  are 
your  lives  spent?  In  the  office,  in  the  store,  in  the 
factory.  You  have  sold  your  birthright  for  a  mess 
of  pottage;  for  you  must  know  in  your  souls  that 
you  have  lost  the  ideals  of  your  forebears. 

What  of  the  heritage  of  your  children?  I  would 
like  my  words  to  shake  all  those  who  read  this  mes- 
sage to  their  foundations,  with  regard  to  the  answer 
to  this, 

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There  is  a  plague  spot  eating  away  the  very  heart 
of  your  nation,  for  you  have  forsaken  the  laws  of 
Nature  in  turning  over  your  children  to  the  care  of 
hired  women. 

During  those  vital  years  of  babyhood,  you  have 
deprived  them  of  the  mother  love  and  mother  care 
that  they  need.  This  is  not  a  small  thing.  It  is  a  sin. 
You  can  never  make  up  to  them  for  the  lossf  every 
day  of  their  lives,  of  the  maternal  love  which  should 
have  been  theirs. 

The  generation  of  today  when  it  reaches  man- 
hood and  womanhood,  will  be  lacking  in  much  that 
is  fine  and  noble  on  that  account. 

I  tell  you,  American  women,  with  the  greatest 
solemnity,  that  if  this  practice  continues  —  if  you  do 
not  see  the  folly  and  wickedness  of  it  —  if  you  do  not 
understand  the  reason  for  the  failures  of  many  of 
your  children  to  make  good  —  if  you  do  not  discon- 
tinue this  practice,  your  race  is  doomed. 

You  young  mothers  must  surely  see  that  you  are 
losing  the  very  greatest  thing  that  Life  has  to  offer 
—  the  joy  of  caring  for  your  children.  The  tremen- 
dous fulfillment  that  you  feel  during  the  years  that 
you  spend  or  could  spend  with  your  baby,  means 
enormous  benefits  to  yourself,  as  well  as  to  your 
little  child. 

There  must  be  a  nation-wide  campaign  to  bring 
the  wife  and  mother  back  into  the  home.  You  will 
come  to  see  that  what  you  thought  was  freedom  is 

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not  so  at  all#  and  is  only  leading  you,  in  the  end,  to 
confusion  of  thought,  to  a  great  restlessness,  and 
too  much  harm  physically  and  mentally.  Those  who 
disobey  the  laws  of  Nature  have  to  pay  a  heavy 
price.    This  way  of  life  must  be  altered. 

American  children  do  not  have  to  put  up  with  the 
hardships  of  the  past;  but  although  these  hardships 
seemed  severe  handicaps  to  those  past  generations, 
in  reality,  they  helped  to  form  their  characters  and 
make  them  strong. 

One  great  evil  lies  in  what  I  would  call  the  pov- 
erty of  thought  which  you  are  giving  your  children. 
The  papers  and  magazines  which  are  put  before 
them  today  are  of  no  use  to  them,  but  are  definitely 
harmful. 

The  remedy  lies  much  in  the  hands  of  the  teach- 
ers, but  eveh  more  so  —  and  this  is  the  idea  that  you 
have  lost  —  even  more  so  in  the  home  life. 

There  must  be  a  campaign  waged,  both  by  par- 
ents and  the  schools,  for  purity.  Children  are  very 
observant  and  they  easily  assimilate  the  ideas  of 
their  elders;  and  the  terrible  harm  that  is  being 
done  to  them,  by  the  example  of  their  parents  in 
their  abandonment  of  their  home  life  and  their  mor- 
als in  general,  can  never  be  estimated  by  you. 

I  have  spoken  of  Marriage  in  the  Future  in  an- 
other message;  but  I  want  you  to  turn  away  from 
the  mockery  and  the  farce  that  you  have  made  of 
Marriage,  and  reach  out  in  your  thoughts  to  a 

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nobler,  purer  wisdom.  "To  love  and  to  cherish,  for 
better  or  for  worse."  Make  these  vows,  not  with 
the  idea  of  breaking  them  when  you  wish  or  when 
the  first  sign  of  trouble  appears,  but  make  them 
with  a  fervent  prayer  in  your  hearts  that  you  may 
keep  them  for  life. 

There  is  a  policy  that  affects  the  women  of  Amer- 
ica very  closely.  It  may  not  have  struck  you  that 
you  are  affected  by  this,  but  it  is  connected  with 
your  lives  and  the  lives  of  those  who  will  come  after 
you.  This  is  the  policy  of  the  "closed  doors."  Amer- 
ica must  throw  open  her  gates  to  all.  This  is  in 
direct  opposition  to  your  present  laws;  but  I  want 
to  emphasize  it  most  strongly,  for  it  is  an  important 
step  to  the  great  Idea  of  Federation.  Can  you  not 
see  what  a  mistake  this  policy  is? 

Blended  into  your  nation,  you  could  have,  if  you 
will:  the  wisdom  of  the  Chinese;  the  skill  of  the 
Japanese;  the  perseverance  of  the  German;  the 
versatility  of  the  French;  the  wit  of  the  Irish;  the 
tenacity  of  the  British;  the  calmness  of  the  Scan- 
dinavian nations;  the  endurance  of  the  Jewish  peo- 
ple; the  creative  art  of  the  Italian. 

All  these  qualities  are  necessary  to  a  great  race, 
and  it  was  wise  of  the  United  States  formerly  to 
welcome  one  and  all,  as  they  did.  They  have  the 
whole  world  to  draw  from,  and  people  of  every  race 
and  color  should  be  welcomed.  Any  other  policy 
is  a  policy  of  Retrogression. 

You  will  see,  women  of  America,  how  this  touches 

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you.  And  you  must,  for  the  benefit  of  the  race, 
welcome  all  who  come  —  and  break  down  all  bar- 
riers; for  only  good,  not  evil,  will  come  of  this. 

I  spoke  of  a  period  of  misery  which  is  to  come; 
but  I  want  to  tell  you  that  there  will  arise  among 
you,  towards  the  end  of  this  period,  an  outstand- 
ing woman.  She  will  be  a  prophetess  and  a  leader. 
She  will  be  greater  than  any  other  woman  before 
her.  She  will  have  such  power  within  her  that 
she  will  be  able  to  unite  the  two  Americas,  so  that 
they  will  be  as  one;  and  this  step  will  be  a  tremend- 
ous advance  towards  the  coming  Federation  of  the 
World.  She  will  bring  with  her  a  great  knowledge 
of  Spiritual  Truths;  and  this  will  mean  a  higher 
morality,  not  only  throughout  the  Americas  but, 
through  them,  to  the  entire  world. 

Look  forward,  then,  women  of  America,  to  your 
high  destiny.  Work  now  for  posterity  in  the  sure 
knowledge  that  every  right  act  of  yours  and  every 
good  influence  that  you  can  bring  to  bear  on  the 
life  of  your  nation,  will  reap  a  harvest  in  the  years 
to  come. 

God  bless  America. 


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THE  LINCOLN  WAY 

July  24,  1953 

MESSAGE   SEVEN 

TO    MEN 

I  spoke  in  plain  words  to  the  women  of  your 
race  in  my  last  message,  and  I  shall  now  speak 
in  plain  words  to  youf  men  of  America. 

In  a  large  degree,  you  are  responsible  for  the 
failure  of  the  women  to  reach  up  to  high  ideals, 
for,  by  your  attitude,  you  have  cheapened  woman- 
hood. 

You  have  been  obsessed  by  the  Money  Idea, 
and  this  has  spread  like  a  hideous  growth  through 
your  whole  system.  You  are  deliberately  sacrific- 
ing everything  to  this.  It  dominates  your  whole 
life  until  you  have  become  a  kind  of  robot  going 
through  life,  hiding  your  true  feelings  under  a 
mask  of  cynical  indifference.  This  affects  every 
phase  of  your  life,  and  has  become  a  great  evil. 

Man  has  been  given  the  sacred  gift  of  creating 
life  —  life  from  his  own  body;  and  at  the  same  time 
he  has  knowledge  that  he  possesses  this  gift.  In 
this  way  he  is  distinct  from  the  animals,  who  create 
life,  without  that  knowledge,  through  instinct. 

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This  gift  to  man  is  part  of  the  mystery  of  Life: 
Life  Force  permeates  his  whole  Being.  Just  as 
Light,  which  we  think  of  as  being  one  Substance, 
has  a  dual  aspect  —  that  is,  it  travels  in  waves  and 
also  in  "quanta"  or  packets  —  so  does  the  Life 
Force  in  man  permeate  his  physical  Being  and,  at 
the  same  time,  his  spiritual  Being. 

Man  intuitively  knows  this.  He  may,  and  does, 
deny  the  spiritual;  for  when  he  doubts,  he  falls 
back  on  the  argument  that  Life  belongs  to  him, 
that  he  can  do  what  he  will,  that  there  is  no  other 
end  to  Life  except  dissolution,  and  that,  therefore, 
it  matters  not  what  he  does.  But  in  the  very  same 
moment  that  he  is  arguing  in  this  way,  he  knows 
that  it  is  not  so,  that  he  has  within  him  something 
Eternal,  something  which  can  never  die,  and,  there- 
fore, he  is  filled  with  terror  at  the  thought  that  he 
may  be,  in  some  way,  harming  this  inner  Being. 

No  words  of  mine,  therefore,  are  needed  to  tell 
you  that  you  possess  this  Spiritual  Being,  that  it 
lives  with  you;  and  that  at  the  very  highest  peaks 
of  your  life  —  and  these  should  include  those  holy 
moments  when  you  are  generating  Life  —  that  it  is 
operating  in  you,  and  will  always  continue. 

I  would  have  you  think  over  this  matter  deeply, 
for  it  is  bound  up  with  your  physical  life;  and  al- 
though it  can  never  leave  you,  you  have  the  power 
to  prevent  yourself  from  realizing  this  holiness. 

You  must  tune  your  thoughts,  so  that  they  are 
receptive  to  spiritual  Truths.    This  does  not  mean 

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following  this  or  that  religious  sect,  or  going  to 
church,  or  saying  routine  prayers,  for  these  can 
become  mockeries  to  you;  and,  at  the  present  time, 
there  is  much  hypocrisy  in  these  matters.  But  it 
means  this:  that  when,  during  the  day  or  night, 
you  may  become  aware  of  certain  thoughts  and 
aspirations,  which  you  realize  have  a  nobler  foun- 
dation than  those  of  your  material  life  —  then  open 
yourself  fully  to  the  influence  of  these  thoughts, 
and  your  reward  will  be  an  inner  peace  and  a 
desire  that  they  should  come  more  often  to  you; 
and  you  will  feel  with  a  certain  shame,  as  you 
begin  to  examine  yourself  more  closely,  that  your 
worldly  thoughts  are  crowding  out  these  others, 
and  making  it  impossible  for  you  to  rise  to  higher 
things. 

I  want  to  tell  you,  for  your  comfort,  this:  when 
we  discard  the  physical  body,  we  feel  a  certain 
difference  with  regard  to  drawing  from  this  Life 
Force;  for  our  power  to  draw  from  it,  is  increased. 
It  is  as  if  we  had,  for  example,  a  few  more  volts 
of  electricity  in  us,  and  that  we  are  so  much  the 
stronger  for  having  discarded  our  physical  body. 
We,  then,  realize  that  the  excess  of  Life  Force  is 
given  us  to  help,  if  we  so  desire,  those  on  the 
Earth  plane;  and,  therefore,  we  use  that  power 
to  send  you  these  holy  thoughts  —  thoughts  of 
tenderness,  love,  and  pity.  And,  therefore,  I  bid 
you  to  be  receptive. 

Open  your  hearts.  Do  not  wrap  yourselves  in 
a  mantle  of  despair.     Believe  that  there  is  help 

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coming  continuously.  Believe  that  the  Spirit  of 
God  is  within  you  all;  and  rest  assured  that  if 
you  will  do  this,  you  will  find  it  easier  to  live  the 
Good  Life. 

You  will  get  back,  men  of  America,  your  values 
of  Truth,  Goodness,  and  Beauty,  which  you  have 
temporarily  lost. 

Lift  up  your  hearts,  then;  for  the  King  of  Glory 
shall  enter  in. 

God  bless  America. 


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THE  LINCOLN  WAY 

July  30,  1953 

MESSAGE    EIGHT 

QUESTIONS     AND     ANSWERS     ABOUT     THE 

UNSEEN 

My  people,  it  is  natural  that  you#  as  you  re- 
ceive and  read  these  messages,  should  wish  to 
know  more  about  the  conditions  under  which  I 
speak  from  the  Unseen.  In  this  message  I  wish  to 
give  you  some  idea,  yet  I  warn  you  most  earnest- 
ly to  realize  that  much  cannot  be  brought  before 
you. 

You  are  a  Western  race  —  practical,  material; 
and  you  wish  in  all  things  to  know,  as  you  put 
it,  all  the  answers.  But  know  this:  That  all  the 
answers  never  will  be  known  by  you  in  your  life 
on  earth.  But  you  will  have  hints  and  glimpses 
in  increasing  proportion  as  the  years  go  on;  and 
the  greater  your  faith,  the  more  you  will  receive. 

You  may  ask  me,  "Where  are  you?"  I  am  near 
my  Instrument,  the  medium,  and  yet  at  the  same 
time  I  could  be  described  as  very  far  away.  And 
this  apparent  contradiction  I  give  deliberately,  for 
I  want  you  to  understand  that  I  am  in  a  state  of 
Being,  not  a  place. 

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I  could  speak  to  you  of  a  Fourth  or  Fifth  Dimen- 
sion, but  this  would  entail  speaking  in  terms  of 
Distance,  and  would  only  add  confusion  of 
thought.  Until  the  theory  of  Relativity  is  more  ex- 
tended, I  cannot  give  you  a  fuller  answer.  But  I 
can  speak  of  something  which  happens  to  all  of 
you,  which  is  easier  to  understand,  namely,  Sleep. 
And  it  is  in  Sleep  that,  I  think,  you  will  find  the 
valuable  hints  of  which  I  have  spoken. 

In  Sleep  our  physical  senses  are  dormant,  and 
our  psychic  senses  are  partially,  but  only  partial- 
ly, in  control.  Hence,  our  dreams  are  often  con- 
fused sequences  of  events  —  those  of  the  past  and 
sometimes  those  of  the  future  —  during  which  you 
are  able  to  move  instantaneously  from  place  to 
place.  You  pass  through  matter  with  ease;  you 
fall  from  great  heights;  yet  in  all  this  you  feel  no 
injury  or  pain. 

There  is  another  good  example  of  confusion  of 
the  physical  senses,  and  that  is  shown  in  the 
Three  Dimensional  Film.  In  this  your  sense  of 
sight  and  your  sense  of  hearing  tell  you  that  vio- 
lent things  are  being  done  to  you.  You  can  be, 
according  to  these  senses,  stabbed,  burnt,  or  shot; 
yet  all  the  time  your  sense  of  touch  or  feeling 
shows  you  that  none  of  these  things  are  happen- 
ing to  you.  Very  soon  now,  this  invention  will  be 
extended,  so  that  the  whole  matter  of  physical 
and  psychic  senses  will  become  much  clearer. 

To  us  here,  it  sometimes  appears  that  you  are 

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as  children  playing  with  a  puzzle.  The  pieces  of 
the  puzzle  are  spread  all  over  the  board;  you  are 
fitting  it  together.  Sometimes  you  almost  succeed 
in  completing  it,  and  we  see  the  small  missing 
piece  slightly  hidden  in  a  corner  of  the  board,  but 
you  see  it  not. 

I  have  spoken  of  the  psychic  senses  and  I  want 
to  explain  this  phrase.  At  birth  the  physical  body 
is  born  with  the  psychic  or  etheric  body  attached 
to  it  by  the  "silver  cord/'  spoken  of  in  the  Bible. 

These  two  grow  together  and  intermingle,  co- 
ordinated by  the  pineal  gland  in  the  brain.  The 
cord  can  be  extended,  but  never  broken  until 
death,  when  the  physical  body  is  discarded.  This 
is  already  known  to  many  of  you. 

Another  question  you  may  ask  is,  "How  do  you 
speak  through  the  Instrument?"  I  use  the  organs 
of  her  throat  and  I  work  through  her  brain,  part 
of  which  is  dormant,  part  is  controlled  by  me. 

Because  she  is  willing  that  it  should  be,  she 
tunes  in  to  my  wave  length.  This  is  no  miracle 
but  a  perfectly  natural  happening.  The  waves  of 
sound  are  there,  and  they  produce  the  result,  which 
is  taken  down  in  writing  by  my  other  Instrument, 
who  also  has  trained  herself  to  tune  in  and  lend 
the  necessary  power. 

If  you  consider  these  things  as  "mysteries,"  I 
would  have  you  think  for  a  moment  of  what  you 
call  natural  events. 


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You  sit  —  we  will  say,  for  example  —  beside  a 
pond.  You  notice  that  the  water  is  transparent 
and  fluid.  You  visit  it  again  on  another  day  (and 
owing  to  a  change  of  temperature  through  great 
heat),  the  water  has  evaporated  into  the  air.  You 
visit  it  again  and  you  find  that  the  flowing  water 
is  now  a  solid  block  of  ice. 

Or  take,  as  another  example,  Sunlight.  You  pass 
through  a  forest,  and  you  know  that  beneath  your 
feet  the  process  is  going  on  whereby  these  trees 
will  become  coal,  and  will  release  the  sunlight 
that  they  have  stored  up  in  the  form  of  fire.  You 
do  not  regard  these  things  as  miracles,  because 
you  understand  them  through  your  reason;  and 
my  point  is,  in  this  message,  to  emphasize  that  the 
matters  of  which.  I  speak  are  natural. 

Another  question  you  may  ask  is:  "How  do  Im- 
pressions arrive?11  Often  by  clear-cut  messages  and 
directions  without  any  word  spoken,  yet  leaving 
no  doubt  at  all  in  the  mind  of  the  recipient  of  what 
is  meant.  These  matters  have  been  put  on  record 
and  fill  many  volumes. 

We  send  these  Impressions  to  you  by  Thought, 
and  they  are  transmitted  through  your  psychic 
senses;  and.  from  them  into  the  nervous  system,  so 
that  the  brain  records  them.  You  can  do  so  much 
towards  developing  this  system  of  communication, 
and  it  requires  less  power  than  the  spoken  word. 

I  want  to  impress  it  on  you,  my  people,  that  the 
motive  of  your  desire  for  all  communication  must 

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be  free  from  all  thought  of  personal  gain,  such  as 
fame  and  publicity;  and  these  powers  must  never 
be  used  for  financial  profit,  for  that  path  leads  in- 
evitably to  the  way  of  fraud,  and  will  destroy  in 
time  the  power  itself. 

You  can  develop  through  self-control  and  mind 
control;  and,  at  the  same  time,  study  the  dangers, 
and  know  yourself.  This  knowing  yourself  is  a 
whole  time  study;  for  it  is  so  easy  to  delude  your- 
self, to  hide  your  real  motives,  and  to  take,  almost 
without  knowing  it,  the  wrong  path.  But,  above 
all,  you  must  pray. 

I,  myself,  when  on  earth,  was  privileged  to  know 
of  these  matters;  and  I  also  know,  therefore,  the 
dangers. 

I  would  like  to  tell  you  that  one  misconception 
that  freguently  arises  on  earth,  due  principally  to 
the  teachings  of  the  various  churches,  is  that  we 
change  greatly  when  we  pass  over.  This,  my 
friends,  is  not  so.  Mercifully,  the  better  side  of 
one's  nature  does  seem  uppermost  due,  I  believe, 
to  the  fact  that  we  have  discarded  the  physical.  I 
noticed  in  myself  that  my  best  desires  were  tri- 
umphing. 

In  life  on  earth,  I  was  filled  with  a  desire  to  help 
Humanity.  In  spite  of  many  faults  and  failings, 
this  was  a  characteristic  of  mine;  and  here  in  the 
Unseen  I  am  able,  to  my  great  joy,  to  help  in  many 
ways  the  souls  that  come  over. 

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Those  of  you  who  are  willing  to  lead  a  spiritual 
way  of  life  —  difficult  as  it  is#  in  the  turbulent  world 
of  today  —  will  find  that  in  opening  your  minds  to 
these  impressions  I  have  spoken  of,  and  in  raising 
your  thoughts  continually  by  purity  of  vision,  you 
will  come  to  an  inner  intimacy  with  ourselves 
here  —  which  will  be  inexpressibly  dear  to  you  — 
will  change,  in  fact,  the  tenor  of  your  life  —  and 
will  be  a  recompense  for  all  suffering  and  sorrow. 

Persevere,  then;  have  faith  and  pray;  and  God 
will  lead  you  by  the  hand  until  you  reach  the 
realms  of  the  Unseen. 

God  bless  America. 


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THE  LINCOLN  WAY 

August  6,  1953 

MESSAGE   NINE 

EVILS    IN    AMERICAN    LIFE 

My  friends,  this  message  deals  with  the  ques- 
tion: How  to  meet  Evil  in  your  world? 

First,  you  must  face  it,  uncover  it,  bring  every 
part  of  it  to  light;  evasions  are  useless.  Have  faith 
in  the  powers  that  God  has  given  you  to  over- 
come it.  Have  the  faith  of  the  man  who  prayed: 
"God,  if  there  be  a  God,  help  my  soul,  if  I  have  a 
soul." 

That  was  true  prayer. 

The  most  disturbing  element  in  American  life 
today  is  self-satisfaction.  Many  of  you  feel  that 
you  have  built  up  a  great  nation  in  comparatively 
few  years;  that  you  are  a  world  leader;  and  that 
the  solving  of  the  world's  difficulties  will  be  large- 
ly in  your  hands  in  the  future;  and  you  feel  fully 
competent  to  deal  with  them.  You  have  had  great 
men,  and  there  are  great  men  among  you  today; 
but  I  ask  you,  Americans,  to  look  on  the  blemishes 
of  your  civilization. 

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Look  at  the  increase  in  the  statistics  of  Crime; 
your  overflowing  prisons;  your  vast  number  of 
juvenile  delinquents.  Look  at  your  gamblers;  your 
murderers;  your  abortionists;  your  drug  addicts. 

Look  at  the  graft  and  corruption  in  high  places, 
often  concealed  and,  even  worse,  tolerated. 

Look  at  the  loosening  of  moral  values,  that  were 
had  and  held  by  your  ancestors. 

I  ask  you:  What  are  you  going  to  do  about  all 
this?  When  are  you  going  to  call  a  halt?  Do  you 
realize  that  you  are  forging  chains  daily  for  your 
destruction,  by  allowing  these  things  to  continue? 

Do  not  say:  "It  is  impossible  for  these  things  to 
be  rectified." 

Cessation  of  War  will  lessen  Man's  readiness  to 
kill;  and  War  must  be  abolished.  Crime  can  be 
largely  dealt  with  by  segregation  and  medical 
treatment,  instead  of  the  harsh  punishments  often 
given  at  the  present  time. 

Fill  your  lives,  so  that  there  will  be  no  room  in 
them  for  Evil.  Cultivate  the  joy  of  living  with 
Nature,  for  you  can  learn  more  in  this  way  about 
right  living  than  you  can  through  the  reading  of 
many  books. 

Bring  Beauty  back  into  your  lives  —  the  Beauty 
of  Art,  of  Music,  of  Literature.  Ask  yourselves  if 
you  have  this  Beauty  in  your  lives  today.  You 
know,  in  very  truth,  you  have  not.    Remember  — 

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ugly  thoughts  create  ugly  deeds.  To  know  your- 
self is  good,  but,  at  the  same  time,  remember  that 
you  can  find  yourself  in  giving  service  to  others. 

The  time  is  drawing  very  close  now,  when  the 
issue  will  be  decided  whether  your  nation  will  be- 
come such  a  power  for  good  as  has  never  been 
seen  before,  in  one  people,  in  the  history  of  the 
world;  or  whether  you  will  be  caught  and  de- 
stroyed by  mounting  waves  of  evil,  in  a  cataclysm 
more  terrible  than  you  can  imagine. 

I  send  you  this  message  with  a  great  desire  to 
stir  you,  all,  to  your  very  depths,  so  that  you  will 
have  full  realization  of  the  dangers  ahead  of  you; 
and,  at  the  same  time,  to  give  you  wonderful  hope 
of  what  you  could  become. 

The  proofs  of  what  I  have  said  lie  all  around 
you;  you  can  see  them  daily.  Yet,  because  Life  is 
easy,  and  great  world  tragedies  have  passed  you 
by,  you  have  covered  yourselves  with  compla- 
cence, and  have  become  accustomed  to  the  idea 
of  shifting  responsibility  and  overlooking  Evil. 

In  this  way,  Americans,  you  —  every  one  of  you  — 
are  guilty,  and  you  may  have  to  pay  a  terrible 
price. 

We  know  on  This  Side  that  there  are  among 
you  those  who  have  a  great  vision  of  higher 
things.  Very  quietly  and  unobtrusively,  these  peo- 
ple are  projecting  this  vision,  in  what  may  appear 
to  you  as  small  ways,  by  means  of  books  and  lec- 

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tures.  But  small  in  numbers  though  they  may  be, 
they  have  great  power,  for  they  are  being  directed 
by  us.  And  the  knowledge  that  this  is  so,  gives 
them  the  assurance  that  no  task  is  beyond  them. 

So  when  the  common  man  emerges  from  his 
chrysalis  of  indifference,  he  will  find  he  has  allies 
of  whom  he  had  little  dreamed,  both  in  this  world 
and  the  next. 

In  very  great  earnestness,  I  ask  you,  Americans, 
to  realize  that  the  time  is  short,  and  to  ponder  on 
these  things  —  praying,  at  the  same  time,  for  wis- 
dom to  help  you  to  meet  the  trials  that  are  to 
come. 

God  bless  America. 

Abraham  Lincoln 


END    OF    MESSAGES 


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