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Title: Abraham Lincoln's personality
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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Was Abraham Lin-coln a Christian?tian? We had been en-joying casual con-versation aroundthe dinner table, agroup of us seatedtogether at an eve-ning function. Some-how the topic haddrifted to Lincolnand to his faith. Youhear a lot about Lin-coln and faith,someone said, butwas he really aChristian? I have long beendrawn to this great-est of all Americans,drawn by his com-plex personality andstrength of charac-ter, his eloquence, his wit, his good-ness, his towering accomplishments.t But I could not easily answer thatquestion. What did Lincoln really be-lieve? What sort of faith drove, sus-tained, and comforted him? And couldthat faith which, admittedly, was unor-thodox by evangelical standards, bedescribed as Christian? The question of Lincolns personalreligious convictions is vexing for anumber of reasons. Like so many otheraspects of his character, this one re-mains obscure first of all because of The Rev. David Bast is pastor of Fifth ReformedChurch in Grand Rapids, Michigan. All qu

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