Abraham Lincoln : the Christian . xcited by thenovelty of the excursion and by the inci-dents that it recalled, he missed the Presi-dent from the company, and, on lookingabout, found him in a quiet nook, reading awell-worn Testament. Such an incidentalrevelation of his religious habits is worthmore than pages of formal testimony.** READS BIBLE EVERY MORNING Captain Mix, the commander at onetime of Lincolns bodyguard, was fre-quently invited to breakfast with thefamily at the Home residence. Manytimes, said he, have I listened to ourmost eloquent preachers, but never withthe same feeling of awe
Abraham Lincoln : the Christian . xcited by thenovelty of the excursion and by the inci-dents that it recalled, he missed the Presi-dent from the company, and, on lookingabout, found him in a quiet nook, reading awell-worn Testament. Such an incidentalrevelation of his religious habits is worthmore than pages of formal testimony.** READS BIBLE EVERY MORNING Captain Mix, the commander at onetime of Lincolns bodyguard, was fre-quently invited to breakfast with thefamily at the Home residence. Manytimes, said he, have I listened to ourmost eloquent preachers, but never withthe same feeling of awe and reverence aswhen our Christian President, his armaround his son, with his deep earnest tone,each morning, read a chapter from theBible.«^ After 1857 Mr. Lincoln seldom made a ^?^-: rr a v- ^^^ i^ HOLYfelBLE, /?///•: 0/ .; AND NEW I . ARGUMENTS 70 niF DIFrERENT BOOKS., MOllA!, AND THEOLOGICAL T *^ 0 B S E R V A T I G N ;-| ILLVSTR n ISC EACH CHAFTER: I liiiH, M :;r:.^> Mr OSTl-RVALD, Prokessor ofDivin;ty,. LINCOLNS MOTHERS BIBLEInside cover and title-page of the Lincoln familjlBible, from which his read to him. It bears the date of 1799. Mr. Lincoln wrote his name in itwhen about ten years old, after his mothers death. It undoubtedly was carried by the Lincolns from Kentucky to Indiana, and thence to w 4° V . ?.i? t,*^ ^,^ House. It is now in the Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection, in the house in which Lincoln died, 510 Tenth Street,IN. w., Washmgton, D. C. Reproduced from a photo by the courtesy of the owner, Captain O. H. Oldroyd. 1864] THE CHRISTIAN 167 speech which did not contain one or morequotations from the Bible. READS HIS MOTHER S BIBLE A lady staying at the White House says:It was his custom when waiting for lunchto take his mothers old worn-out Bibleand lie on the lounge and read, and one dayhe asked me what book I liked to readbest, and I said, I am fond of the , said he to me, *they are the best,for I
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