Excerpt from Lincoln and the Bible Book, with his son Tad standing by his side. The book looks like a Bible. It was not a Bible, however, but one of the old time photograph albums. Lincoln told his friend Noah Brooks that he was concerned lest people would think he was pretending to read the Bible to Tad, and that thus the picture would go out as a false pretense. But Lincoln need not have been concerned on that score, for most of the people knew that he was, at that time at least, a con stant reader of the Bible, and that he quoted frequently from its pages in his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.