The word presence is variously used today. We refer to a political or a military presence in strategic places of the world. We say she or he has an impressive presence. And then, there is an awareness, an invisible presence without the physical image. T. S. Eliot once commented that we frequently discover and walk with companions not of our own generation. We know this to be true. Lincoln is as alive to many today as when he walked the streets of Springfield, Illinois. No one can visit those