Mr. Lincoln once remarked to a friend that his religion was like that
of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he heard speak at a church
meeting, and who said: “When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I
feel bad; and that’s my religion.”
Mrs. Lincoln herself has said that Mr. Lincoln had no faith--no faith,
in the usual acceptance of those words. “He never joined a church; but
still, as I believe, he was a religious man by nature. He first seemed
to think about the subject when our boy Willie died, and then more than
ever about the time he went to Gettysburg; but it was a kind of poetry
in his nature, and he never was a technical Christian.”