4. He believed in the divinity of Christ—believed that Christ is God.
5. He believed in the efficacy of prayer, and was accustomed to pray himself.
6. He believed in the doctrine of experimental religion, and had experienced a change of heart.
7. Although he never united with any church, he was contemplating such a step at the time of his assassination.
8. The church with which he would have united, we are led to infer, was the Presbyterian.
The following is a statement of the theological opinions of Lincoln as understood by those who deny that he was a Christian:
1. In regard to a Supreme Being he entertained at times Agnostic and even Atheistic opinions. During the later years of his life, however, he professed a sort of Deistic belief, but he did not accept the Christian or anthropomorphic conception of a Deity.
2. So far as the doctrine of immortality is concerned, he was an Agnostic.
3. He did not believe in the Christian doctrine of the inspiration of the Scriptures. He believed that Burns and Paine were as much inspired as David and Paul.
4. He did not believe in the doctrine of Christ's divinity. He affirmed that Jesus was either the son of Joseph and Mary, or the illegitimate son of Mary.