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Holland (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 57
few minutes the prayer ceased, and the President, accompanied by a Quakeress not less than eighty years old, entered the room where I was sitting. I made up my mind then, gentlemen, that Mr. Lincoln was not a bad man; and I don't think it will be easy to efface the impression that the scene I witnessed and the voice I heard made on my mind! Nothing has been given to the public since Mr. Lincoln's death, more interesting and valuable than the following, from the pen of Dr. Holland:-- Holland's Life of Abraham Lincoln. At the time of the nominations at Chicago, Mr. Newton Bateman, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Illinois, occupied a room adjoining and opening into the Executive Chamber at Springfield. Frequently this door was open during Mr. Lincoln's receptions, and throughout the seven months or more of his occupation, he saw him nearly every day. Often when Mr. Lincoln was tired, he closed the door against all intruders, and called Mr. Bateman in
Johnson's Island (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 57
and the crisis immediately following, influentially determined him in what he called a process of crystallization, then going on in his mind. Reticent as he was, and shy of discoursing much of his own mental exercises, these few utterances now have a value with those who knew him, which his dying words would scarcely have possessed. On Thursday of a certain week, two ladies, from Tennessee, came before the President, asking the release of their husbands, held as prisoners of war at Johnson's Island. They were put off until Friday, when they came again, and were again put off until Saturday. At each of the interviews one of the ladies urged that her husband was a religious man. On Saturday, when the President ordered the release of the prisoner, he said to this lady,-- You say your husband is a religious man; tell him, when you meet him, that I say I am not much of a judge of religion, but that in my opinion the religion which sets men to rebel and fight against their government
Noah Brooks (search for this): chapter 57
with sincerity, that I hope I am a Christian. I had lived, he continued, until my boy Willie died, without realizing fully these things. That blow overwhelmed me. It showed me my weakness as I had never felt it before, and if I can take what you have stated as a test, I think I can safely say that I know something of that change of which you speak; and I will further add, that it has been my intention for some time, at a suitable opportunity, to make a public religious profession. Mr. Noah Brooks, in some reminiscences, already quoted from in these pages, gives the following upon this subject:-- Just after the last Presidential election he said, Being only mortal, after all, I should have been a little mortified if I had been beaten in this canvass; but that sting would have been more than compensated by the thought that the people had notified me that all my official responsibilities were soon to be lifted off my back. In reply to the remark that he might remember that in
Holland (search for this): chapter 57
r the lapse of a few minutes the prayer ceased, and the President, accompanied by a Quakeress not less than eighty years old, entered the room where I was sitting. I made up my mind then, gentlemen, that Mr. Lincoln was not a bad man; and I don't think it will be easy to efface the impression that the scene I witnessed and the voice I heard made on my mind! Nothing has been given to the public since Mr. Lincoln's death, more interesting and valuable than the following, from the pen of Dr. Holland:-- Holland's Life of Abraham Lincoln. At the time of the nominations at Chicago, Mr. Newton Bateman, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Illinois, occupied a room adjoining and opening into the Executive Chamber at Springfield. Frequently this door was open during Mr. Lincoln's receptions, and throughout the seven months or more of his occupation, he saw him nearly every day. Often when Mr. Lincoln was tired, he closed the door against all intruders, and calle
Willets (search for this): chapter 57
ident, very justly observed: It is not necessary to appeal to apocryphal stories -which illustrate as much the assurance of his visitors as the simplicity of his faith — for proof of Mr. Lincoln's Christian character. If his daily life and various public addresses and writings do not show this, surely nothing can demonstrate it. Fortunately there is sufficient material before the public, upon which to form a judgment in this respect, without resorting to apocryphal resources. The Rev. Mr. Willets, of Brooklyn, gave me an account of a conversation with Mr. Lincoln, on the part of a lady of his acquaintance, connected with the Christian Commission, who in the prosecution of her duties had several interviews with him. The President, it seemed, had been much impressed with the devotion and earnestness of purpose manifested by the lady, and on one occasion, after she had discharged the object of her visit, he said to her: Mrs.-, I have formed a high opinion of your Christian charac
Douglas (search for this): chapter 57
s wet with tears: I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me — and I think He has — I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but Truth is everything. I know I am right, because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God. I have told them that a house divided against itself cannot stand; and Christ and Reason say the same; and they will find it so. Douglas don't care whether slavery is voted up or down, but God cares, and humanity cares, and I care; and with God's help I shall not fail. I may not see the end; but it will come, and I shall be vindicated; and these men will find that they have not read their Bibles right. Much of this was uttered as if he was speaking to himself, and with a sad, earnest solemnity of manner impossible to be described. After a pause, he resumed: Doesn't it appear strange that men can ignore the moral aspect
A. Lincoln (search for this): chapter 57
i. Much has been said and written, since Mr. Lincoln's death, in regard to his religious experien of the term, I would scarcely have called Mr. Lincoln a religious man,--and yet I believe him to, gave me an account of a conversation with Mr. Lincoln, on the part of a lady of his acquaintance,ance of her reply. When she had concluded, Mr. Lincoln was very thoughtful for a few moments. He rsation turned upon religious subjects, and Mr. Lincoln made this impressive remark: I have never u, said he, you may talk as you please about Mr. Lincoln's capacity; I don't believe him to be the aice of his private secretary, and told that Mr. Lincoln was busy just then, but would be disengagede House, and that she was then praying with Mr. Lincoln. After the lapse of a few minutes the prayg. I made up my mind then, gentlemen, that Mr. Lincoln was not a bad man; and I don't think it wil Nothing has been given to the public since Mr. Lincoln's death, more interesting and valuable than[2 more...]
Newton Bateman (search for this): chapter 57
am Lincoln. At the time of the nominations at Chicago, Mr. Newton Bateman, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Illino was tired, he closed the door against all intruders, and called Mr. Bateman into his room for a quiet talk. On one of these occasions Mr. L close of October, and only a few days before election. Calling Mr. Bateman to a seat by his side, having previously locked all the doors, hmorandum in pencil which lay before him. At length he turned to Mr. Bateman, with a face full of sadness, and said: Here are twenty-three mit members of the churches, a very large majority are against me. Mr. Bateman, I am not a Christian,--God knows I would be one,--but I have cance and favor. The effect of this conversation upon the mind of Mr. Bateman, a Christian gentleman whom Mr. Lincoln profoundly respected, wahe eternal truth of God. As the two men were about to separate, Mr. Bateman remarked: I have not supposed that you were accustomed to think
J. P. Thompson (search for this): chapter 57
lt as deeply upon the great questions of the soul and eternity as any other thoughtful man; but the very tenderness and humility of his nature would not permit the exposure of his inmost convictions, except upon the rarest occasions, and to his most intimate friends. And yet, aside from emotional expression, I believe no man had a more abiding sense of his dependence upon God, or faith in the Divine government, and in the power and ultimate triumph of Truth and Right in the world. The Rev. J. P. Thompson, of New York, in an admirable discourse upon the life and character of the departed President, very justly observed: It is not necessary to appeal to apocryphal stories -which illustrate as much the assurance of his visitors as the simplicity of his faith — for proof of Mr. Lincoln's Christian character. If his daily life and various public addresses and writings do not show this, surely nothing can demonstrate it. Fortunately there is sufficient material before the public, upo
H. C. Deming (search for this): chapter 57
isoner, he said to this lady,-- You say your husband is a religious man; tell him, when you meet him, that I say I am not much of a judge of religion, but that in my opinion the religion which sets men to rebel and fight against their government, because, as they think, that government does not sufficiently help some men to eat their bread in the sweat of other men's faces, is not the sort of religion upon which people can get to heaven. On an occasion I shall never forget, says the Hon. H. C. Deming, of Connecticut, the conversation turned upon religious subjects, and Mr. Lincoln made this impressive remark: I have never united myself to any church, because I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize their Articles of Belief and Confessions of Faith. When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, he continued, the Saviour's condensed
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