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Excerpt from A Reporter's Lincoln
With that Mr. Hill took the manuscript from Lincoln's hand and threw it into the fire. It is not remembered that Lincoln was particularly disturbed by this summary disposition of his argument. The traditions do not evidence that he had reached settled convictions on religion. He started discussion, however, in the little community, and that was what he liked very much to do. The wife of the man who had burned the argument asked Lincoln, Do you really believe there isn't any future state? And Lincoln, so Mrs. Hill told, replied. Mrs. Hill, I'm afraid there isn't. It isn't a pleasant thing to think that when we die that is the last of us. Mrs. Hill thought this unsettled view of religion underwent a change after Lincoln moved to Springfield. Upon such incidents as this in his Salem days the controversialists, after Lincoln died, built varying opinions as to what he thought about religion.
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