The Unintended Irony

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I posted something about the Lincolns' church in D.C. (New York Avenue Presbyterian Church) elsewhere on this forum yesterday. We know that Dr. Phineas Gurley was the minister there who developed a close relationship with Mr. Lincoln. While searching for information on the church, I found this quote from Dr. Gurley in reference to the President's religious persuasion:

"I have had frequent and intimate conversations with him on the Subject of the Bible and the Christian religion, when he could have had no motive to deceive me, and I considered him sound not only on the truth of the Christian religion but on all its fundamental doctrines and teachings. And more than that, in the latter days of his chastened and weary life, after the death of his son Willie, and his visit to the battlefield of Gettysburg, he said, with tears in his eyes, that he had lost confidence in everything but God, and that he now believed his heart was changed, and that he loved the Savior, and, if he was not deceived in himself, it was his intention soon to make a profession of religion."