Excerpt from Address Given by Walter S. Holden Before the Unity Universalist Church, Oak Park, Illinois, on Abraham Lincoln's Religion: Sunday, February 10, 1946 N 0 man in modern history has been more written about than Abraham Lincoln. In the more than 5000 books and pamphlets that have been published about him, there are many phases of his life which have given rise to differences of opinion, of which the most controversial is his religion. On the one hand it is maintained that he was an infidel. So was be characterized by his partner for years, Wm. H. Herndon. At another time Herndon said Lincoln was an infidel verging upon atheism. I am not a theologian nor a deep bible student and I shall not venture into the field of infidelity, atheism, theism, etc., but shall be content to quote from Lincoln's own utterances and from others who knew him personally or who, from the study of his character, have acquired opinions which carry weight. As to the meaning or the application of the word infidel, opinions differ. Dr. Wm. E. Barton our old neighbor of the First Congregation Church of Oak Park tells how as a college student, he Barton, taught summer school in the backwoods of Kentucky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.