Excerpt from The Religion of Abraham Lincoln The Almost Chosen People: A Study of the Religion of Abraham Lincoln was first published by Doubleday Company in 1959 and quickly went out of print. The revision of this book now appears as The Religion of Abraham Lincoln, simplifying the title and pointing to the content of the book rather than to the dramatic phrase Lincoln used in addressing the New Jersey Senate on February 21, 1861. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.