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"Give us men! / Men who, when the tempest gathers, / Grasp the standard of their fathers / In the thickest fight. / Men who strike for homes and altar, / (Let the coward cringe and falter / God defend the Right). / True as truth, though lorn and lonely, / Tender as the brave are only / Men who tread where saints have trod, / Men for Country, Right, and God / Give us men! -- I say again, again / Give us men!"
That Lincoln did not join a church is no reason for inferring that he was not a believer in Christianity. It was just the opposite in his case, -- as the years passed his convictions and faith became stronger.