When answering the question of why God said, “Let there be light,” we have to acknowledge God’s power and creativity in creating the light. The political, legal and pragmatic calculations that he had to consider are not given as much attention. In 1786, an Indian attacked and killed Captain Abraham—“not in battle,” as Lincoln would tell the story, “but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.

Why God said “let there be light” is because He was commanding the light to come into being as part of His creation. One of their grandchildren, Mordecai, became a successful man in central Pennsylvania, marrying Hannah Saltar, a well-connected daughter of a New Jersey family that included lawmakers in the colonial assembly and an acting royal governor. His numerous New York Times best-selling books include His Truth Is Marching On, The Soul of America, Thomas Jefferson, and Destiny and Power. He will help keep our feet from rushing toward sin as well as He will keep our hearts focused on Him.While there are countless books on Lincoln, one of the most studied and written-about figures in history, Meacham’s latest will undoubtedly become one of the most widely read and consulted. Those who might turn to religion today to reject what Lincoln stood for - just as many Confederates did at the time - are, Meacham suggests, simply mistaken. Lincoln was not all he might have been—few human beings ever are—but he was more than many men have ever been.

Adam and Eve are being expelled from the Garden of Eden; the whole structure of the world as we know it was being formed in this moment. Calendar arrived safely in plastic-free packaging - which I've not seen before with a calendar, so kudos for that. The Hon Abraham Lincoln…was as brave [a] man that ever live[d] on the face of earth,” Shiner wrote, “and all that he done he done it with clear [conscience] before his creator.When was it ever known that liberation from bondage was accompanied by a recognition of political equality?

For others, Lincoln was the opposite: a politician, yes, but one fully dedicated to equality and emancipation. After getting these necessary caveats out of the way, though, Meacham doesn’t actually spend much time examining Lincoln’s imperfections. But what of those on the other far end of the political spectrum, who lay claim to the party of Lincoln but reject his egalitarianism, embrace the Lost Cause and project a Christian nationalist view of politics and history? God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6). Light is often used as a metaphor in the Bible, and the word illumination (“divine enlightenment of the human heart with truth”) has to do with bringing things into the light.

As such, the topic was ever-present during Lincoln’s four terms in the Illinois state legislature –⁠ a position he won two years after his initial loss. I will say … that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. VERDICT A scholarly book on the life, triumphs, and heartbreaks of Abraham Lincoln's life, but general readers may enjoy it too.

And There Was Light (2022) is a biography of Abraham Lincoln that takes a nuanced look at a complex leader. In the second scene of the third act, Booth snuck to the president’s box, in which he’d carved a small hole. If we have chosen to place faith in Jesus, our Light, it is our responsibility and privilege to follow Him. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance,” Lincoln had written to the Quaker Eliza P. Under a legal principle established in Missouri known as “once free, always free,” a lower court agreed with Scott.God made two great lights—the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. This was a president who led a divided country where the slaveholding South believed that it had God and history on its side.