Note 53 — Chapter XX
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Dr. Chapman, who appears to have permitted no improbable story of Lincoln's orthodoxy to escape him, records this incident with complete assurance of its correctness; but it is a story which it is impossible to fit into the life of Lincoln.
In Latest Light on Lincoln, p. 396, Chapman says, "There is every reason for giving this remarkable story unquestioning credence." On the contrary, there is every good reason for questioning it at every essential point, and the questions do not evoke satisfactory answers.