Bascom x biography of abraham

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Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... XIV WHAT RELIGION MEANT TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN Of all things in and around New Salem, from its earliest to its latest days, there was nothing about the little village that existed in forms and opinions more crude and vague than its religion.

For the most part its inhabitants had no religion to speak of, in the conventional sense of the word.

Bascom x biography of abraham

In the case of any who had held church membership elsewhere, the relation had lapsed with their removal to a community that had no church. Yet perhaps no other hamlet so small and shortlived as New Salem has ever had a citizen whose religion has been more discussed.

The people of New Salem and its vicinity were a plain and industrious folk. Their material needs were indeed few as