Telegram-herald., 1889-07-15

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TIE toll0a5 5ng interesting s1se0ssioll
o President Lsaeolass relsgs0s.s t.s.lefs
Is fr0a an ulsefs.ss Ia tbe Detroit
Is-s7sal NitI Stastog cullona. No has
teen IA Detgost - chairman q tAe
slsss.i~.Es u the Senate Interstate
Commerce Gosuu.tsee
senator Culls2m Ases - Springfield,
IL, once tlae aoa4. II Ans4nAfa 4 ~
coiu- Recently = controversy h1s
4glsea A. - LsDColas rs.ig sgsas beliefs
william He4Fnaen. Ilncol8's AS part
nef, has lust publsaed Life II t8e
great fIesl.teat, b BulCb he states that
Mr.. Lsne0ia bsheysd ~ = Supreme
Belug, but isot u = personal boa. A.
~ tAss poiat senator Iuliom SD ANY
thing that Mr.. He4rgdea may szY on
such = subject needs - I-o taken 1stn
TeEy m4ny grams Ok s2lt- Hearndea
himself doesn't believe IA any thing
AID ae would uaturally tAInS that MF
Lincoln d-sseAeyed a. much 81
d. himself does. should want
documentary proof of any assertion
that i4e might make on such subject
-not because he does not try 10 tell the
Truth, bat becauSe his statements are
cOlOGed hy hls OWn belets.'
Then / showed SENATOR C0Iium an
extract from the chapters OF the IAn-
coin lie that are "a appear ia the
August Cottsrg n which extract this
statement = made.
lie was man OF profound and in
tense religious feeling. We have no
purpose ~ attempting 10 formulate his
creed; we question If he himself ever
did 80. There have been swift Wit
ueoses Wh0. Judging from expressions
uttered "a hls Callow youth, have
called hun an atheist, aud others Who,
with the most laud8ble intentions, have
remembered improbable conversations
which they bring forward % prove at
once hIs orthodoxy and their own lntl-
macy with him. But leaving aside
these apOcryphal evidences, We
have only g. look at his authen-
TIC public and private utterances
To see how deep and strong IN
all the latter part ct his life was the
current of relie oils thouCht and emo
ton. lie cOnnuuaIfg rrFlted and ap-
pTeciatcd, at their H. - value, the
prayers OF good people. From that
morning when, standing amid the fall
ing snOwfakes, ON the railway car at
Springfield, nc 'csked the prayers of his
neighhOrs IN those touching phrases
whose echo rose that night htininvOcations
from thousands of family altars, 10 that
memorable hour when on the steps of
the capitol he humbled himself before
his Creator IN the sublime words of the
second inaugural, there Is not an ex-
preston known 20 have come from his
lips or hls pen but proves that he held
himself answeTabte In every act of ms
career to more august tribunal than
any on-earth."
Il Will tell you" said Senator Cul-
lom, after he had read the extract, 'of
an incident that happened in Spring
lield, before he was nominated. There
had been series of debates between a
UniverSalist and Campbcliitc-Or
Chrstian-minIster, touching the exist
ence of a hell. Night after night they
waged their war of words and Lincoln
was intensely Interested. On the clos
ing night | sat next him on one Of the
rear benches. After both had ended,
Lincoln rose excitedly, in that awkward
way OF his, and, turning TO me, he said
In Il tone of real concern, Il tell YOU
what 1t Is, CullOm, neither one of them
has touched the real question, after
ALL You see, he knew more about it
than either speaker did. And this was
the most | ever heard him say on a
religious subject