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Title: Abraham Lincoln : the Christian
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Johnstone, William J. (William Jackson), b. 1867
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : Eaton & Mains Cincinnati : Jennings & Graham
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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M LINCOLN (1842 doubts, Lincoln says: I almost feel a pre-sentiment that the Almighty has sent yourpresent affliction expressly for that ob-ject. . . . Should she, as you fear, be destinedto an early grave, it is indeed a greatconsolation to know that she is so wellprepared to meet it. Her religion, whichyou once disliked so much, I will ventureyou now prize most highly.* In a letter to Speed, March 27, 1842, heuses these two sentences: Enough, dearLord and God be praised for that,showing that his mind was ever turnedGodward. In a letter to Speed, July 4, 1842, afterSpeed was happily married, he says: Ialways was superstitious; I believe Godmade me one of the instruments of bring-ing Fanny and you together, which unionI have no doubt he had foreordained.Whatever he designs he will do for meyet. Stand still and see the salvation ofthe Lord is my text just now.* These utterances do not indicate anyreal religious conviction, but they do indi-cate that he believed in a ruling Provi-dence.
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1842) THE CHRISTIAN 41 Letter to George E. PickettFebruary 22, 1842, in a letter to GeorgeE. Pickett, who afterward became theGeneral Pickett who led the famous chargeat Gettysburg, Mr. Lincoln says: I havejust told the folks here in Springfield onthis 110th anniversary of the birth of himwhose name, mightiest in the cause ofcivil liberty, still mightiest in the cause ofmoral reformation, we mention in solemnawe, in naked, deathless splendor, that theone victory we can ever call complete willbe that one which proclaims that there isnot one slave or one drunkard on the faceof Gods green earth. Recruit for thisvictory.*Pew in First Presbyterian ChurchAfter Lincolns marriage, November 4,1842, he and his wife took a pew in theFirst Presbyterian Church of Springfield,Illinois, retaining it until their removal toWashington ,^^ except the few years theyattended the Episcopal Church. Denies Charge of InfidelityMr. Thomas Mostiller, of MenardCounty, Illinois, in a letter to Mr. B. F. 42 ABRAHA

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