Providence
If genius is a mark of divine Providence made manifest in the preferred of human kind, the life of Lincoln shows clearly the power and guidance of God. Notwithstanding the adverse conditions surrounding his early life, he struggled upward, almost unknowingly, to the preeminent position of power and trust ordained for him, fully equipped to meet and master every problem. Like all God’s ambassadors, his life ended when his life’s great work was done, and returning to his long home, he left “Footprints, that perhaps another, sailing o’er life’s solemn main, a forlorn and shipwrecked brother seeing, shall take heart again.”