Lincoln’s Religious Views
By Editor
The Truth Seeker, an infidel paper published in New York City, has just concluded the publication of a series of fifteen contributed articles designed to prove that Abraham Lincoln, instead of being a Christian, as has been most strongly claimed by some, was a "freethinker." The testimony seems conclusive, but what difference does it now make what Mr. Lincoln's religious views were? The Christian religion does not rest upon the faith of any man, no matter how eminent, and the sooner both Christians and infidels come to recognize this fact the better. The majority of the great men of the world have always rejected Christ, and, according to the Scriptures, they always will; and the efforts of Christians to make it appear that certain great men who never professed Christianity were in reality Christians, is simply saying that Christianity cannot stand on its merits, but must have the support of great names to entitle it to favorable consideration. Even if it could be shown that Mr. Lincoln was a member of some church, Christianity would gain nothing, even as infidelity gains nothing by the evidence offered by the Truth Seeker that he was not a Christian.