“I am not at all concerned about that…. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.”– Abraham Lincoln, cited in F.B. Carpenter’s Six Months At the White House , p. 282 (1866) p. 282. 

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In or about 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, a man described only as a pious minister remarked to Lincoln that he hoped God was on the Union’s side. Lincoln without hesitation, replied that it was the nation’s part to be on the Lord’s side. Though the exact wording of Lincoln’s response is a little contested, the encounter is not. Our republic needs to remain on the Lord’s side always to our best ability.