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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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ince we came to Washington; but nowthe war is over, and, with Gods blessing,we may hope for four years of peace and 182 ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1865 happiness, and then we will go back toIllinois and pass the rest of our lives in quiet.^ His Last Words The Rev. N. W. Miner, who was pastorof the First Baptist Church of Springfield,Illinois, and an old friend and neighbor ofMr. Lincoln, writes as follows: Mrs. Lin-coln informed me that the last day helived was the happiest of his life. Thevery last moments of his conscious lifewere spent in conversation with her abouthis future plans, and what he wanted to dowhen his term of office expired. He saidhe wanted to visit the Holy Land and seethose places hallowed by the footprints ofthe Saviour. He was saying there was nocity he so much desired to see as Jerusalem;and with the words half spoken on histongue, the bullet of the assassin enteredthe brain, and the soul of the great andgood President was carried by the angelsto the New Jerusalem above.*
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PRESIDF.NT LINCOLNS LAST PHOTOGRAPH Anointed and prepared for the sacrifice.—Page 141 Taken April 9, 1865, the day of Lees surrender. Mr. Lincolnwas sharpening a pencil for little Tad, when a photographer askedpermission to make a picture. Reproduced from a photograph in the Lincoln Memorial Collec-tion, Washington, D. C., by the courtesy of the owner, CaptainO. H. Oldroyd. The original negative by Gardner is in the collection of Americanaof Frederick H. Aleserve, New York City. THE CHRISTIAN 183 Testimony of Friends Is the evidence sufficient? Has the tes-timony already produced left a singledoubt in anyones mind as to Lincolnsreligious beliefs and character? While hisown testimony is the strongest and bestupon which to base a conclusion, yet itcannot be out of place to hear the opinionsof personal friends and eminent men whohave made a careful study of Lincolnscharacter. MR. WILLIAM O. STODDARD Mr. William O. Stoddard, his privatesecretary, bears testimony as follows: Itmay be not

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