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Why Abraham Lincoln was not a Church Member

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 15, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 25.

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Why Abraham Lincoln was not a Church Member.

I HAVE, said he, 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, the Saviour’s condensed statement 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.—F. B. Carpenter’s Life of Abraham Lincoln.