Article December 28, 1899 Issue

Why Lincoln was not a Church Member

President Lincoln was once asked why he did not join a church and this was his notable answer:—

"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 the articles of belief and the usual confessions of faith. When any church will inscribe on its altars as its sole qualification for membership the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both law and gospel, 'Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself,' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul."—World Herald.

We don't parade Washington Street with shabby habiliments—if we can help it—but we stroll through existence with moral accoutrements the most ridiculous and unbecoming.—Boston Evening Transcript.

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