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- The latest discovery is a Bible—the sixth known to belong to Lincoln—that has been kept hidden from scholars and the public since the president acquired it in 1864, the year before he was assassinated. The New York Times reports that Lincoln received the Bible as a gift, at a Philadelphia fundraiser for soldiers wounded in the ongoing Civil War.
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(Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959) When Abraham Lincoln visited his friend Joshua Speed in Kentucky in the summer of 1841, Speed’s mother gave him an Oxford Bible.
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A Bible that belonged to President Abraham Lincoln resurfaced 150 years after his death. The Bible was gifted to President Lincoln by the Citizens Volunteer Hospital of Philadelphia on June 16, 1864. It was then passed on to his neighbor Rev. Noyes W. Miner by the first lady Mary Lincoln on October 15, 1872.
The bible was used by President Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration in 1861. It was also used by President Barack Obama at his inaugurations in 2009 and 2013, as well as by President Donald Trump at his inauguration in 2017. The bible was returned to Carroll after Lincoln's first inauguration.
On September 7, 1864 Lincoln described the Bible as “the best gift God has given to man.” (1) In the summer of 1864 Lincoln told his closest lifelong friend Joshua Speed (who was a self-proclaimed skeptic) that he should “take all of the Bible upon reason that he can, and the balance on faith.” (2)
Sep 9, 2024 · Acknowledging that Lincoln may have approached the Bible with a wary eye throughout his twenties, Leidner points to Lincoln’s use of the Bible in his 1842 temperance address to Springfield’s Washingtonians and his contemporary correspondence with Joshua Speed as evidence that Lincoln had begun to re-engage with the Bible by his early thirties.
Lincoln’s relationship with God is a subject highly debated by historians and students of history. Some say Lincoln was an unbeliever, or at least a skeptic, of Christianity. A few say he was an atheist. Many say he was a “deeply religious” man that daily sought God’s guidance.
But it did have the Bible, which Lincoln evidently read with great care. His later speeches and ordinary conversation were peppered with biblical quotations and allusions. This family...
