The Soul of Abraham Lincoln

by William E. Barton

CONTENTS

PART I: A STUDY OF RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTS
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The Conflict of Testimony	[19]
II	Why the Biographies Differ	[24]
III	The Environment of Lincoln's Boyhood	[29]
IV	The Environments of Lincoln's Young Manhood	[51]
V	The Environment of Lincoln's Life in Springfield	[71]
VI	The Environment of Lincoln's Life in Washington	[86]
PART II: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVIDENCE
VII	The Rules of Evidence	[101]
VIII	The Bateman Incident	[114]
IX	The Lamon Biography	[128]
X	The Reed Lecture	[135]
XI	The Herndon Lectures, Letters, and Biography	[140]
XII	Lincoln's Burnt Book	[146]
XIII	"The Christian's Defence"	[156]
XIV	"Vestiges of Creation"	[166]
XV	Other Formative Books	[172]
XVI	Chittenden and Chiniquy	[188]
XVII	The Beecher and Sickles Incidents	[198]
XVIII	"Behind the Scenes"	[203]
XIX	From the Housetops and in the Closet	[210]
PART III: THE RELIGION OF LINCOLN
XX	What Lincoln Was Not	[225]
XXI	Why Did Lincoln Never Join a Church?	[244]
XXII	The Constructive Argument	[260]
XXIII	The Creed of Abraham Lincoln	[291]
APPENDICES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
I	Extract from Newton Bateman's Lecture on Lincoln with Variants of the Springfield Farewell Address	[303]
II	"High-Handed Outrage at Utica" By Artemus Ward	[307]
III	"The Conversion of Abraham Lincoln" By the Rev. Edward L. Watson	[309]
IV	The Reed Lecture	[314]
V	Two Herndon Letters Concerning Lincoln's Religion	[336]
VI	The Irwin Article, with Letters	[341]
VII	"The Christian's Defence" With full chapter analysis	[358]
VIII	Lincoln and the Churches By Nicolay and Hay	[377]
IX	"Bound together in Christianity and Patriotism" Hitherto unpublished address of Lincoln	[385]
	Bibliography	[387]
	Index	[401]

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PART I: A STUDY OF RELIGIOUS
ENVIRONMENTS