Was Lincoln a Christian? (Classic Reprint)

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I have been a student of Lincoln all my life, and for many years it has been my ambition to read every thing that I could read about him, to absorb the match less romance and tragedy of his life, to try and dis cover that background without which no man's life can be explained, to find those subtle agencies and hidden forces which are responsible for the ﬂowering and the crystallization of his genius, to see in the little things as the indicators of the majestic heights to which he arose when the big things came. And it becomes increasingly difficult to speak of Lincoln; he can never become threadbare as a theme, and yet the very nature of the circumstances compels a continued reiteration of certain well known things about him; and it is well that it is so. We give evidence of our higher selves when we honor the highest self of some great and beautiful character; we give evidence of our own spirituality when the spiritual genius of some other personality has for us a charm and an attraction; it is evidence of our own intellectual place, the sphere we occupy, when we find an affinity with the intellectuality of preceding genius.

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