[Red Badger]

Abraham Lincoln Bible surfaces, offers clues to his religious beliefs

A Bible that once belonged to President Abraham Lincoln resurfaced 150 years after his death, pointing to the faith he clung to at a pivotal moment in American history and when he was growing more overtly religious."

[arrogantsob]

The attacks on Trump are reminiscent of those on Lincoln. Only Alexander Hamilton was subject to such unjust abuse before Trump.

There are glimmerings of hope that the electorate is recognizing the ring through the nose by which it has been led into disaster, the biggest of which is Illegalism.

[Leaning Right]

This just in:

Pawn Stars host Rick Harrison offers $150 for the Lincoln Bible. “I’d offer more,” Harrison said, “but the book is in pretty rough condition.”

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Yes the LORD was his strength not just through the Civil War, but a slew of trials in his personal life as well.

[Verginius Rufus]

Do we know that Lincoln actually used this copy of the Bible?

The Lincoln family Bible he would have read as a youngster is on display at his birthplace in Kentucky.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

The President had to deal with the loss of a child, the mental illness of his wife, etc...

It's worth noting also that the United States of America in the 19th Century was arguably the most Biblically literate of any society the world has ever known...and this included many slaves.

Even just looking at the birth registry attests to this, with so many newborns being given names like: Abraham (Lincoln), or Thaddeus, Abner, Ebenezer, Amos, or in the case of females: Tabitha, Ruth, Jemima...

In other words: tributes to every crevice of Scripture including the obscure, and not only the usual Matthews, Marks, and Johns and James.

As Lincoln noted in his Second Inaugural:
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes...

Indeed, these people were STEEPED in the Word of God. And no doubt: the Civil War tried and tested the faith of many.

[Jewbacca]

Cool bit of history, but I don’t see how a bible gifted to someone that lacks annotations or notes or whatnot offers a clue about anything except he was given a bible, he kept it, and his wife gave it away.

[TigersEye]

I have two old family Bibles similar to this, one that looks very close to it,
but it was published in 1886 and weighs in at a puny 8 1/2 lb.s.
Perhaps the dimensions of the Lincoln Bible are bigger.

[ReformedBeckite]

I doubt if he used this big mule choking Bible (18 pounds) other then for display, to prop open a door, for a paper weight and or stuff like that.

[Albion Wilde]

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.”

Here is a collection of wonderful drawings of the various facilities of that hospital, which was located at Broad St. and Washington Avenue:

"Citizens' Volunteer Hospital", Philadelphia, A Peek In Time's Doors

Here is just one of the more than a dozen pictures at the link: