ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE PRACTICAL MYSTIC BY THE SAME AUTHOR --------------------- ILLUSIONS AND REALITIES OF THE WAR THE INVINCIBLE ALLIANCE AND OTHER ESSAYS THE CELTIC TEMPERAMENT MODERN MYSTICISM AND OTHER ESSAYS PARISIAN PORTRAITS THE HUMOUR OF THE UNDERMAN THE VALLEY OF SHADOWS LA VIE ET LES HOMMES (_in French_) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE PRACTICAL MYSTIC BY FRANCIS GRIERSON AUTHOR OF "MODERN MYSTICISM," "ILLUSIONS AND REALITIES OF THE WAR," "THE VALLEY OF SHADOWS," ETC. NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD MCMXVIII COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY JOHN LANE COMPANY Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co. New York, U. S. A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS _The Practical Mysticism of Abraham Lincoln_ 9 _The Divine Will_ 12 _The Mystical Awakening_ 13 _The Agnostic and the Mystic_ 17 _The Logic of the Supernatural_ 19 _The Mystical Mood_ 21 "_Going into the Silence_" 22 _Invisible Powers_ 24 _The Fusion of Spirit and Matter_ 26 _His Miraculous Progress_ 28 _A Prophetic Witness_ 30 _Lincoln's Simplicity_ 32 _Lincoln's Clairvoyant Wit_ 34 _A Prophetic Vision of Hades_ 37 _Shakespeare and Lincoln_ 40 _A Prophecy Fulfilled_ 42 _The Ordinances of Heaven_ 44 _Lincoln's Face_ 48 _The Great Debate_ 49 _Forecastings and Premonitions_ 52 _Illumination of the Spirit_ 54