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*v PVW-^*±h&*P*T Th e era Id Vol. XXV. No. 22. The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1928 Price 5 Gents. ! f •i i t \* .K DIM THE FAITH ©F LINCOLN In these days of fundamentalism, prohibition laws and Presidential possibilities, the distinction between firm religious convictions and intolerance is a live question 'with almost everyone of us. On public problems we usually try to check up with Lincoln's -wisdom; on religious matters he would not have claimed to be a guide, and there has always been controversy as to his beliefs. But in the recent compendium of Lmcolniana* The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg, we Were interested in Lincoln's beautiful statement of his faith, as he told it to Mrs. Henry B. Rankin, an old friend in New Salem who had once reached Out kindly hands in a time of loss and deep sadness. He saidi ' "Those days of trouble found me tossed amid a sea of questionings. They piled big around me. Through all I groped my way until I found a stronger and higher grasp of thought, one that reached' beyond this life with a clearness and Satisfaction I had never known before. The Scriptures unfolded before me with a deeper and more logical appeal, through these new experiences, than anything eke I could find to turn to, er ever before had found in them. I do not claim that all my doubts then, or since that time have been swept away. They are not "Probably it is to be my lot to go on in a twilight, feeling and reasoning my way through life, as questioning, doubting Thomas did. But in my poor* maimed, withered way, I bear with me as I go on a seeking spirit of desire for a faith that was with him of olden time, who, in his need, as I in mine, exclaimed, "Help Thou my unbelief.' "I do not see that 1 air. more astray—thctugh perhaps in a different direction—than many ethers whose points of view differ widely from, ea.ch other In the sectarian dencminafcons. They all claim to be Chris- ttons, and interpret their several creeds as infallible ones. I doubt the possibility, or propriety, of settling the religion of Jesus Christ in the models of man-made creeds and dogmas. "It was a spirit in the life that He laid stress on and taught, if I read aright. I know it to be so with me. The fundamental truths reported in the four gospels as from the lips of Jesus Christ, and that I first heard frtsm the lips of my mother, are settled and fixed moral precepts with me. I have concluded to dismiss from my mind the debatable wrangles that ence perplexed me with distractions that stirred up, but never absolutely settled anything. I have tossed them aside with the doubtful differences which divide denominations. ^ have ceased to follow such discussions or be interested in them, I cannot without mental reservations assent to long and complicated creeds and catechisms. "If the church would ask simply for assent to the Savior's statement of the Substance of the law: 'Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy faiatt, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself,*—that church would I gladly unite with/* i i rM i; 't: A ,,- it \.„ \ t
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Title | Sewickley Herald |
Subject | Sewickley (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | A weekly community newspaper in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Coverage includes September 1903-Most recently available. |
Creator | Trib Total Media, Inc |
Publisher | Trib Total Media, Inc |
Date | 02-10-1928 |
Location Covered | United States; Pennsylvania; Allegheny County; Sewickley |
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Language | English |
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Title | 1928-02-10.Page01 |
Date | 02-10-1928 |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact the Sewickley Public Library, Attn: Reference Department, 500 Thorn St. Sewickley PA 15143. Phone: 412-741-6920. Email: sewickley@einetwork.net |
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Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | *v PVW-^*±h&*P*T Th e era Id Vol. XXV. No. 22. The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1928 Price 5 Gents. ! f •i i t \* .K DIM THE FAITH ©F LINCOLN In these days of fundamentalism, prohibition laws and Presidential possibilities, the distinction between firm religious convictions and intolerance is a live question 'with almost everyone of us. On public problems we usually try to check up with Lincoln's -wisdom; on religious matters he would not have claimed to be a guide, and there has always been controversy as to his beliefs. But in the recent compendium of Lmcolniana* The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg, we Were interested in Lincoln's beautiful statement of his faith, as he told it to Mrs. Henry B. Rankin, an old friend in New Salem who had once reached Out kindly hands in a time of loss and deep sadness. He saidi ' "Those days of trouble found me tossed amid a sea of questionings. They piled big around me. Through all I groped my way until I found a stronger and higher grasp of thought, one that reached' beyond this life with a clearness and Satisfaction I had never known before. The Scriptures unfolded before me with a deeper and more logical appeal, through these new experiences, than anything eke I could find to turn to, er ever before had found in them. I do not claim that all my doubts then, or since that time have been swept away. They are not "Probably it is to be my lot to go on in a twilight, feeling and reasoning my way through life, as questioning, doubting Thomas did. But in my poor* maimed, withered way, I bear with me as I go on a seeking spirit of desire for a faith that was with him of olden time, who, in his need, as I in mine, exclaimed, "Help Thou my unbelief.' "I do not see that 1 air. more astray—thctugh perhaps in a different direction—than many ethers whose points of view differ widely from, ea.ch other In the sectarian dencminafcons. They all claim to be Chris- ttons, and interpret their several creeds as infallible ones. I doubt the possibility, or propriety, of settling the religion of Jesus Christ in the models of man-made creeds and dogmas. "It was a spirit in the life that He laid stress on and taught, if I read aright. I know it to be so with me. The fundamental truths reported in the four gospels as from the lips of Jesus Christ, and that I first heard frtsm the lips of my mother, are settled and fixed moral precepts with me. I have concluded to dismiss from my mind the debatable wrangles that ence perplexed me with distractions that stirred up, but never absolutely settled anything. I have tossed them aside with the doubtful differences which divide denominations. ^ have ceased to follow such discussions or be interested in them, I cannot without mental reservations assent to long and complicated creeds and catechisms. "If the church would ask simply for assent to the Savior's statement of the Substance of the law: 'Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy faiatt, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself,*—that church would I gladly unite with/* i i rM i; 't: A ,,- it \.„ \ t |
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