Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 06/20/2019 2:14:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
On Thursday, the Bible will go on display for the first time at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill.
The 16th president was given the Holy Book on June 16, 1864, during a rare wartime trip to Philadelphia raising money for wounded soldiers, where Lincoln donated 48 signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation that were sold for fundraising. He was gifted the 18-pound, gilted Bible decorated with the words "faith," "hope," and "charity" by the hospital that treated wounded and ill soldiers during the Civil War.
The cover of the Bible reads: “Presented to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by the Ladies of the Citizens Volunteer Hospital of Philadelphia.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
It’s like “George Washington slept here.”
“Abraham Lincoln once owned this.”...........
Oh, I get the historical/collector significance.
I just disagree with the title of the article “Abraham Lincoln Bible surfaces, offers clues to his religious beliefs.”
I have my grandfather’s copy of “Mein Kampf”. (He was a soldier in the German Army — and a Jewish man — so obviously he left promptly. But he was given a copy, just like everyone else.)
It obviously doesn’t offer a clue about my grandfather’s political beliefs.
Y'know, they tore that McDonalds down and replaced it with... wait for it... a McDonalds. The old abandoned Ridgeway Library is now High School For Creative & Performing Arts. Neighborhood has come a long way.
I got mugged 30 years ago at gunpoint at the old McDonalds, around the back after going thru the drive-thru. Hope they changed the configuration of the drive-thru.
I did know about the High School's transformation.
Thanks Red Badger.
So you are saying that unlike the very personalized Jefferson Bible, this Bible was just another bible, but owned by Lincoln?
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