Lincoln's Christianity by Burkhimer Michael;

Author:Burkhimer, Michael; [Burkhimer, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Westholme Publishing

Lincoln was remembered using passages recalling Q in court. In defending the law profession against a dishonest lawyer who had used information improperly from the other side of a case, Lincoln supposedly said, “The Wisest has said that ‘no man can serve two masters.’” Here Lincoln quoted the Q verse, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24/Luke 16:13).45

In his famous debates with Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln was more at home using scripture due to his Whig roots. The Whigs advocated moral reform of the nation and often used biblical language. Douglas was a Democrat whose political idol, Andrew Jackson, once refused to proclaim a fast day because he thought it violated the separation of church and state. In the debate with Douglas, the issue of slavery gave Lincoln the opportunity to use Q material. Douglas was so needled by this and, having no answer, even went against his Democratic inclinations and started to quote scripture back at Lincoln.46

In a speech in Chicago concerning the extension of slavery in 1858, Lincoln looked to Q to make a point against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln realized the country was not living up to the promises of the Declaration of Independence, so he gave a Biblical parallel:

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