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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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ry C. Whitney, an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, says, This statement was made to an eminent Christian lady, and may be relied upon as authentic, and it shows conclusively that Abraham Lincoln was a Christian. OPINION OF A BOSOM FRIEND Mr. Noah Brooks, newspaper correspondent, bosom friend of Mr. Lincoln from 1862 until his death, and author of his biography, writes December 31, 1872, as follows: I have had many conversations with Mr. Lincoln, which were more or less of a religious character, and while I never tried to draw anything like a statement of his views from him, yet he freely expressed himself to me as having a hope of blessed immortality through Jesus Christ. . . . Once or twice, speaking to me of the change which had come upon him, he said, while he could not fix any definite time, yet it was after he came here, and I am very positive that in his own mind he identified it about the time of Willies death. In many conversations with him I absorbed the firm conviction that Mr.
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Rev. PHINEAS D. GURLEY, D.D. THE CHRISTIAN 171 Lincoln was at heart a Christian man, beheved in the Saviour, and was seriously considering the step which would personally connect him with the visible church on earth. OPINION OF HIS PASTOR The Rev. Phineas D. Gurley, D.D., Mr. Lincolns pastor while President, writes: I have had frequent and intimate conversations with him (Lincoln) on the subject of the Bible and the Christian religion, when he could have had no motive to deceive me, and I considered him sound, not only on the truth of the Christian religion, but on all its fundamental doctrines and teachings. And, more than that, in the latter days of his chastened and weary life, after the death of his son Willie, and his visit to the battlefield of Gettysburg, he said, with tears in his eyes, that he had lost confidence in everything but God, and that he now believed his heart was changed and that he loved the Saviour, and, if he was not deceived in himself, it was his intention soon to make a

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