WHEN CROSSING THE RIVER
On the way to his inauguration, Abraham Lincoln stopped in New York. He spoke with Horace Greeley. Greeley asked Lincoln, “Will the nation be plunged into a civil war?” Lincoln replied with this story. “Back in Illinois, some lawyers followed a judge from town to town to argue cases. While traveling they would cross many rivers. Some were trickling streams, some were swollen rivers, especially the Fox River. One day, the lawyers met a circuit preacher. They asked whether it was possible to cross the Fox. The preacher answered, ‘I have one rule that helps me cross the Fox River. I don’t cross the Fox until I get there.'” Source unknown
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