Tbc/Abraham Lincoln

After my run-in with Wikipedians on the [/President of the United States]? page, I decided to keep this here as a mere footnote rather than risk the same treatment on the Abraham Lincoln page. I found this at http://www.intouch.org/myintouch/mighty/portraits/abraham_lincoln_213718.html:

...Thanks to the devotion of his mother, Nancy, who died when he was quite young, and then his stepmother, Sarah Bush, Lincoln grew to regard the Bible as a foundational tool for life. Lincoln once said: "This great book [the Bible]...is the best gift God has given to man...But for it we could not know right from wrong."

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Despite his Christian upbringing, Lincoln did not accept Christ as his Savior until later in life. While he governed the nation by many of the principles written in God's Word, he lacked a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. After the death of his son, Willie, Lincoln heard for the first time of Christ's personal love and forgiveness for each man and woman.

He wrote: "When I left Springfield, I asked the people to pray for me; I was not a Christian. When I buried my son—the severest trial of my life - I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg?, and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ."