certainly, there was a spiritual journey of some kind in Abraham Lincoln’s life, in this man who has nearly come to be regarded as the soul of America, and if so we ought to know it in order to better understand not only Lincoln but our country and even ourselves as well. What has usually discredited such efforts in the past is that Lincoln’s religious life is seldom allowed to speak for itself. Instead, it becomes the repository of religious agendas. This began immediately after his death. That he was killed