Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896) [PAGE 20]

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As early as 18(50 he wrote to Newton Bate

>'I know t h a t there is a God and thai He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming and 1 know that His hand is in it. IT Me has ;i plac<

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[ am ready. I am nothing, but truth is e\ rything. [ know that I am right, because I know that liberty is right, for Christ tenches it and Christ is God/' In November, L862, he enjoined the orderly observance of the Sabbath upon the army and the navy as "a becoming deference to the best ^eminent of a christian people, and a due regard to tin

Divine Will." and added: "The discipline and

character of the national forces should not suffer n r the tuse they defend be imperiled by tin an at ion of the day or the mime of the Most High." There has been much said in relation to the pealiarities of Mr. Lincoln's religious opinions, but

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