_Tycho Brahe and Lincoln_ 56 _Herndon's Analysis and Testimony_ 58 _An Original Mind_ 60 _The Great Books_ 61 _Veneration and Truth_ 63 _The Great Puzzle_ 64 _Lincoln's Energy and Will_ 65 _Nature and Prophecy_ 67 _The Seal of Nature_ 68 _Law and Authority_ 70 _Lincoln as Critic_ 73 _His Style_ 74 _Lincoln's Serenity_ 75 _The Romance of His Character_ 77 _President by the Grace of God_ 79 _Science and the Mystical_ 80 _The Old and the New_ 81 _Destiny versus Will_ 82 _James Jacquess--Practical Mystic_ 85 _Images and Dreams_ 89 _The New Era_ 92 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE PRACTICAL MYSTIC _The Practical Mysticism of Abraham Lincoln_ A knowledge of the influences which ruled the life of Lincoln, the greatest of practical mystics, is essential now that a new form of paganism and slavery threatens humanity. In Lincoln's time the black slaves of America had to be freed; in our time the white slaves of Europe have to be freed. We have returned to the conquest. History is being repeated, but on a far vaster scale. The whole world is groaning under the threats and deeds of tyranny that seeks to become absolute. What Abraham Lincoln stood for in the middle of the nineteenth century the English-speaking peoples must stand for at the beginning of the twentieth. Materialism produced Prussian autocracy. A spiritual power brought America safely through the ordeals of the Civil War. But the material and the spiritual cannot both rule at the same time. One must yield authority to the other. And we cannot succeed by denying the very thing which caused Lincoln to triumph over all enemies and obstacles. In 1862 the Reverend Byron Sutherland went with some friends of the President to call upon him. On November 15th, 1872, Dr. Sutherland wrote to the Reverend J. A. Reed:--