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Yarns and Stories, by Alexander K. McClure 346"Out in Illinois, a convict who had murdered his cellmate was sentenced tobe hanged. On the day set for the execution, crowds lined the roads leadingto the spot where the scaffold had been erected, and there was muchjostling and excitement. The condemned man took matters coolly, and asone batch of perspiring, anxious men rushed past the cart in which he wasriding, he called out, 'Don't be in a hurry, boys. You've got plenty of time.There won't be any fun until I get there.'"That's the condition of things now," concluded the President; "there won'tbe any fun at New York until I get there."PRESIDENT AND CABINET JOINED IN PRAYER.On the day the news of General Lee's surrender at AppomattoxCourt-House was received, so an intimate friend of President Lincolnrelates, the Cabinet meeting was held an hour earlier than usual. Neither thePresident nor any member of the Cabinet was able, for a time, to giveutterance to his feelings. At the suggestion of Mr. Lincoln all dropped ontheir knees, and offered, in silence and in tears, their humble and heartfeltacknowledgments to the Almighty for the triumph He had granted to theNational cause.BELIEVED HE WAS A CHRISTIAN.Mr. Lincoln was much impressed with the devotion and earnestness ofpurpose manifested by a certain lady of the "Christian Commission" duringthe War, and on one occasion, after she had discharged the object of hervisit, said to her:"Madam, I have formed a high opinion of your Christian character, andnow, as we are alone, I have a mind to ask you to give me in brief your ideaof what constitutes a true religious experience."The lady replied at some length, stating that, in her judgment, it consistedof a conviction of one's own sinfulness and weakness, and a personal needof the Saviour for strength and support; that views of mere doctrine might
Yarns and Stories, by Alexander K. McClure 347and would differ, but when one was really brought to feel his need of divinehelp, and to seek the aid of the Holy Spirit for strength and guidance, it wassatisfactory evidence of his having been born again. This was the substanceof her reply.When she had, concluded Mr. Lincoln was very thoughtful for a fewmoments. He at length said, very earnestly: "If what you have told me isreally a correct view of this great subject I think I can say with sinceritythat I hope I am a Christian. I had lived," he continued, "until my boyWillie died without fully realizing these things. That blow overwhelmedme. It showed me my weakness as I had never felt it before, and if I cantake what you have stated as a test I think I can safely say that I knowsomething of that change of which you speak; and I will further add that ithas been my intention for some time, at a suitable opportunity, to make apublic religious profession."WITH THE HELP OF GOD.Mr. Lincoln once remarked to Mr. Noah Brooks, one of his most intimatepersonal friends: "I should be the most presumptuous blockhead upon thisfootstool if I for one day thought that I could discharge the duties whichhave come upon me, since I came to this place, without the aid andenlightenment of One who is stronger and wiser than all others."He said on another occasion: "I am very sure that if I do not go away fromhere a wiser man, I shall go away a better man, from having learned herewhat a very poor sort of a man I am."TURNED TEARS TO SMILES.One night Schuyler Colfax left all other business to go to the White Houseto ask the President to respite the son of a constituent, who was sentencedto be shot, at Davenport, for desertion. Mr. Lincoln heard the story with hisusual patience, though he was wearied out with incessant calls, and anxiousfor rest, and then replied:
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