Lincoln's Christianity by Michael Burkhimer

[RJNorton]

(01-01-2016 01:32 PM)maharba Wrote:  "I see supposed 'fragments' on this and that in dead letter Lincoln material: Niagra Falls, Golden apples, etc. This 'meditation' fragment sounds to me like future material being cooked for what amounted to another speech, the 2nd Inaugural..wonder how many other 'fragments' of Lincoln's may still be out there."

Of this fragment John Hay wrote, "It was not written to be seen of men. It was penned in the awful sincerity of a perfectly honest soul trying to bring himself into closer communion with its Maker."

Do you feel John Hay was also part of the "grand deception" that Lincoln was faking a belief in God for "public consumption?"