Abraham Lincoln's Religion: An Essay on One Man's Faith

This work is a summary and analysis of Abraham Lincolns Religion. This Study begins with a description of the earliest relations Mr. Lincoln had with Religion his parents dedication to a Sect known as the Separate Baptists. By late adolescence Lincoln began to reject his parents faith and he appears to have been a religious Skeptic until his marriage to Mary Todd. After his marriage he attended Protestant services with his wife and family but there was little evidence that he was deeply religious in that time. Lincoln knew the Scriptures quite well but it was not until the death of his two sons Eddie in 1859 and Willie in 1862 that as the sixteenth president put it He became more intensely concerned with Gods Plan for human kind.