The Jack Miller Center has allowed the republication of its recent historical series, which examines Abraham Lincoln's wisdom in the midst of national calamity. Please read the letter below from Jack Miller that captures the essence of the series:
Thank you for coming along with us on this Lincoln Series. I’ve become very interested in Lincoln lately and how his wisdom can guide us today. One hundred fifty-eight years ago, Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address: “ Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
That beginning is as relevant today as it was then. Lincoln said the Civil War tested whether our nation, “or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” After the Civil War, the nation eventually came together again as one. But, today, we are experiencing a great division. As divided as we are now, can we as a nation long endure, particularly in a world as challenging as ours is today? Lincoln’s closing remarks should guide us toward our salvation: “ . . . this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
