Index
Abolitionists, 46, 69
Adullam, Cave of, 52
Aesop, 12
American anguish, 141
American Revolution, 10
Antietam, Battle of, 38, 41
Army of the Potomac, 18
Arnold, Isaac N., 18
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 12
Baillie, Donald, 128
Baltimore Convention, 104
Baltimore Presbyterian Synod, 82
Baltimore Sun, 10
Baptists, Regular, 11
Barton, William E., 61n., 80
Basler, Roy, ix
Bates, Edward , 8, 117
Battle of Bull Run, First, 27
Battle of Bull Run, Second, 8, 40, 137
Baxter, Richard, 80
Beecher, Henry Ward, 108
Beveridge, Albert J., 50n.
Bible Society of Springfield, 60
Bixby, Mrs. Lydia, 74
Blab school, 50
Blair, Montgomery, 38
Boswell, James, 61
Bright, John, 33, 34, 120, 121, 137
Brooks, Noah, 26, 75, 76n., 81
Brown, John 69
Buber, Martin, 82
Buchanan, President James, 79, 101
Bunyan, John, 12
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Cabinet meeting, 27, 42, 117
Call to Prayer, 85
Campbellite, 102
Carey, James, 43
Carpenter, Francis B., 24, 30n., 42
Cartwright, Peter, 14, 97, 98, 103
Catholics, 93, 103
Catton, Bruce, 33
Charnwood, Lord, 119, 120, 139
Chase, Salmon P., 24
Chicago clergymen, 40, 41, 53, 78
Chicago Press and Tribune, 65
Chicago Times, 136
Chittenden, L. E. , 127
Christian calendar, 112, 113
Church, The, 55
Church and State, 106, 115, 117
Church of St. Clement Danes, 134
Church membership, 15, 95ff.
Church support, 104, 105
Churchill, Sir Winston, 139, 140
Clay, Henry, 67
Cleveland Convention, 51, 52
Colored Ministers, 114
Comedy, sense of, 39
Comstock, Elizabeth, 73n.
Constitution, The 9, 23, 37, 39, 56
Copperheads, 28, 29, 135
Creedal Statement, 110, 111
Crisis, 104
Cromwell, Oliver, viii
Curtis, William E., 75n.
Daily Illinois Journal, 60n.
Davis, Jefferson, 41, 77, 125
Declaration of Independence, 56, 64, 66, 67, 69
Defoe, Daniel, 12, 123, 124
Deming, Henry C., 110
Denominations, value of, 102
Determinism, 16
Development of Lincoln's thought, 7
Dignity of man, 65
Divine worship, 21
Doctrine of Necessity, 15, 16
Douglas, Paul H., 135, 136
Douglas, Stephen A., 54, 56, 57, 64, 66, 70, 76, 100
Dred Scott Decision, 123
Drinkwater, John, 119
Earlham Hall, 43
East Room of White House, 115
Ecumenicity, 102, 106, 115
Edgington, Frank E., 101n.
Edwards, Ninian W., 61
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Einstein, Albert, 106
Emancipation Proclamation, 24, 25, 27, 37, 38, 41, 43, 46, 47, 53, 87, 126, 129, 130
Everett, Edward, 132, 133
Family Bible, 50
Family of Man, 28, 65, 119
Fast Day Proclamations, 90, 92, 106
Fatalism, 19, 138
Federal Thanksgiving, 6, 7, 49, 90, 91, 93
First Inaugural, 23, 26, 89, 135
First Presbyterian Church of Springfield, 20, 21, 60, 62, 100, 101
Fisk University, 48
Ford, Allen N., 98
Foreordination, 19
Fort Sumter, 27
Founding Fathers, 66, 140
Freewill, 19
Fremont, General John Charles, 37, 51
French Revolution, 28
Friends House Library, 33
Gettysburg Address, 7, 8, 10, 28, 46, 49, 90, 92, 131-135
Gettysburg, Battle of, 79n., 87, 88, 90, 93, 109, 131, 135
Glover, T. R., 97
Good Friday, 113
Graham, Mentor, 13
Gray, Chaplain E. H., 115
Greeley, Horace, 37, 39, 40, 89, 94, 129, 130, 131
Guiding Hand of God, 31, 120, 136
Gurley, Dr. Phineas D., 74, 101, 115, 116
Gurney, Eliza, 4, 24, 42-49, 105, 109, 122, 137
Gurney, Joseph John, 43
Hale, Sara Josepha, 90, 93
Hall, C. H., 115
Hall of Representatives, 117
Hanks, Dennis, 50, 72
Hanks, Nancy, 50
Harlan, Senator James, 76
Hay, John, ix, 8, 23n., 28, 40, 108
Henderson, Senator John B., 50
Henry, J. Clyde, 102n.
Herndon, William H., 14, 60, 82, 83
Hodgenville, Ky., 3, 50n.
Hodges, Albert G., 138
Holy Scriptures, 48ff.
Holy Week, 113
Hospital chaplains, 113, 114
Houck, Herbert S., 75
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House Divided, 56, 57, 58
Hughes, Archbishop John J., 103
Hume, David, 61
Idolatrous patriotism, 118
Illinois College, 13, 58
Illinois legislature, 17
Image of God, 65, 66
Independence Hall, 55, 65
Indiana Asbury, 116
In God We Trust, 7
Instrument of God's Will, 31, 40, 41, 44, 45, 82
Jacobins, 28, 29
Jefferson, Thomas, 67, 68, 69, 84, 123
Jews, 91
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 61
Johnston, John D., 20
Judicial system, 123
King, Francis T., 33
King James Bible, 134
Lamon, Ward Hill, 13, 56
Lauck, Mrs. Sidney I., 101
Lecture on inventions, 58, 59
Lee, Robert E., 24, 38, 41, 131, 140
Lesser Evil, 67, 68
Liberty, 70
Lincoln and the press, 28
Lincoln, bitter criticism of, 28, 104
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 54
Lincoln Memorial, 134
Lincoln National Life Foundation, ix
Lincoln, Eddie, 20, 21, 29
Lincoln, Mary, 21, 75
Lincoln, Nancy 11, 12, 72
Lincoln, Sarah, 12, 73, 96
Lincoln, Thomas, 11, 12, 72
Lincoln, Willie, 29, 30, 73, 75
Lincoln's conception of God, 81, 82, 137, 138
Lincoln's development, 81, 89, 121
Lincoln's doubts, 21, 22
Lincoln's education, 12, 13
Lincoln's ethics, 68
Lincoln's funeral, 114-117
Lincoln's handbill, 15-17, 98
Lincoln's humor, 18, 39, 42, 51, 52, 79
Lincoln's hypochondriaism, 18
Lincoln's portrait, 34
Littell, Franklin H., 96n.
London Spectator, 137
Loyal Colored People, 48
Lutherans, 103
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McCartney, Clarence E., 102n.
McClellan, General George, 4, 18, 32, 33, 37, 81
McCulloch, Hugh, 52
McMurtry, R. Gerald, ix
McPheeters, Samuel B., 105
Mahdi, The, 94
Masonic Lodge, 102
Meditation on the Divine Will, 8, 26, 40, 45, 137
Meeting for Sufferings, 33
Message to Congress, 8, 10, 35, 47, 130
Methodist Church, 100, 103, 116
Might and Right, 71
Milk sick, 72
Missouri Compromise, 22
Moral law, 121, 122
Morton, Oliver P., 43, 55
Mott, Hannah B., 43
Mott, Richard F., 44n.
Mysticism, 32
Mystique of Lincoln, 6
National capital, 6
National Fast Day, 86, 87
Nevins, Allan, 83, 131-133
New Haven, Conn., 23
New Salem, Ill., 10, 13, 16
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, 74, 101
New York Herald, 104
New York Independent, 28
New York Tribune, 36, 39, 89
New York World, 135
Newton, Isaac, 45
Nicolay, John, ix, 23, 108
Niebuhr, Reinhold, vii, 16, 47, 107, 124, 125, 129, 131
Nixon, President Richard M., 43n.
Oak Ridge Cemetery, 117
Oath, 24, 42
Olsson, Karl A., 78
Owens, Mary S., 97n.
Palmerston, Lord, 34, 120, 136
Paradox, 19, 118ff., 125, 127
Patriotism, 32, 118, 119
Payne, Thomas, 14
Perfectionism, 54
Phillips, Wendell, 37
Pigeon Creek, 16, 96
Pigeon Meeting House, 11, 12, 50
Plato, 42
Pomeroy, Rebecca R., 53, 73, 74
Pope, General John, 40
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Potts, Isaac, 75
Pratt, Henry E., 15
Prayers of Southerners, 77
Presbyterian General Assembly, 100
Presbyterian Life, 55n.
Prince Albert, 34n.
Progressive Friends, 35f.
Protestants, 91, 102
Providence, idea of , 119, 122, 124, 134
Psalms, 53, 70
Quakers, 11, 35
Quakers, English, 33
Quakers of Iowa, 76
Quaker women, 78, 79
Quakerism, 103
Queen Victoria, 34n.
Racial intermarriage, 66
Randall, J.G., 38, 39
Rankin, Henry B., 22n., 99
Rankin, Mrs., 99, 109
Rebel Army, 25
Roberts, William Henry, 74
Ross, Frederick A., 63
Salem (Illinois) Advertiser, 79
Salute to the Flag, 133
Sandburg, Carl, 8, 31, 43n., 50, 51n., 108n., 114
Saulsbury, Senator Willard, 107
Scott, General Winfield, 36
Scripps, John L., 11n.
Secession, 5
Second Inaugural, 5, 16, 45, 55, 123, 124, 131, 135-141
Self-evidence, 70
Sermon on the Mount, 54, 81
Seven Days' Battles, 32, 37
Seward, William H., 26, 37, 38, 89, 93
Shakespeare, William, 12, 18, 19
Siamese elephants, 79
Silence, appreciation of, 43
Simpson, Bishop Matthew, 49, 115-117
Slavery, 23, 24, 53, 63ff., 66, 67, 122, 126
Smith, Caleb Blood, 80n.
Smith, Dr. James 20, 21, 30, 53, 60, 61
Smith, Timothy L., 7
Smith, Winfield, 80n.
Socrates, 42
Soldier's Home, 59
Sparrow, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas, 72
Speed, Joshua, 18-20, 59
Speed, Mrs. Lucy G. 20, 58
Speed, Mary, 20
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Speer, William S., 51
Sperry, Willard L., vii, 6, 111
Spiritualism, 102
Springfield, Ill., 10
Springfield Railroad Station, 9
Stanford University, 47
Stanton, Edwin M., 105
Stephens, Alexander H., 23
Stephenson, Nathaniel W., 29, 31, 37n.
Strode, Hudson, 41, 77n.
Stuart, John T., 17, 61
Sumner, Charles, 120, 135
Sunderland, Chaplain Byron, 107
Swedenborgianism, 102
Synoptic Gospels, 57
Tarbell, Ida, 30
Taylor, Bayard, 112
Temple, Archbishop William, 84
Theology of prayer, 77
Todd, Mary, 17, 19
"Trent" affair, 33
Trenton, N.J., 9, 12
Trinity Church, New York, 30
Tweedsmuir, Lord, viii, 3
Twenty-third Psalm, 49, 51
Under God, 7, 132-134
Unitarian Church, 100
Universalism, 83, 84
Valley Forge, 75
Vinton, Francis, 30
Vocation, idea of, 19, 92
Volney, Constantin de, 14
Ward, Artemus, 42
Warren Louis A., 11, 72n., 96, 123
Washington, D.C., 10
Washington, George, 9, 12, 75
Weed Thurlow, 139
Welles, Gideon, 25, 37
Whitall, John M., 43
White, Andrew D., 18
White House, 11
Whitehead, Alfred N., 13
Williams, T. Harry, 28n.
Wills, Judge David, 132
Wilson, Congressman James R., 126, 127
Wolf, William J., vii, 14n., 27, 42, 55, 69, 79, 83
Woolman, John, 122
Wrath of God, 84
Young Men's Christian Association, 114
