Abraham Lincoln in his Times Chapter 21 Democratic Eloquence Part 3

Abraham Lincoln in his Times Chapter 21 Democratic Eloquence Part 3

a general that one day during the battle, he went into a room at the White House, got down on his knees, and asked God to avert another Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville. According to the general, Lincoln told him, “I then and there made a solemn vow to Almighty God that if he would stand by our boys at Gettysburg I would stand by him. And he did, and I will.” 36 The president allegedly had another religious experience when he visited Gettysburg in November. He was so moved by the signs of human self-sacrifice on the battlefield, the story went, that he responded to a question about his religion by saying that he embraced Christ. 37  The report got into the papers, prompting an Iowan to write Lincoln expressing “my joy, (& I doubt not the joy of every Christian heart throughout our land), at the statement recently made in the religious press that you have sought & found the Saviour, that you ‘do love Jesus.’” 38  The story of Lincoln’s Gettysburg “conversion,” however, is unsubstant…