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Abraham Lincoln, on his way to the White House to be inaugurated as President, stopped by Dwight L. Moody’s Sunday School in “Little Hell”

I was once as poor as any boy in this school, but I am now President of the United States, and if you attend to what is taught you here, some of you may yet be President of the United States.

 

Dwight L. Moody, Yankee Preacher, Meets Abe Lincoln in Little Hell

Featured Image Credit: Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Address: 54 West Hubbard Street
Chicago
Illinois
60654
United States

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