Too bad Lincoln met his Maker unshriven (as it were)

"Surely, the Judge of all the earth, would, by the solemnities and atrocities of this astounding event, teach us as a people, lessons from which we must not fail to learn, if we would not have something yet more terrific befal us.  Yesterday afternoon, [Lincoln’s] funeral procession passed from City Hall, through Broadway and Fifth avenue, to 34^th st., occupying several hours. . . .  Solemnity and order marked the mournful obsequies.  One cannot but think, amid all of this, where is the soul of the departed chieftain, so suddenly called to leave the poor body tenantless?  Would that our dear President had not received his death wound in the theater."

     Phoebe Palmer, as quoted in Richard Wheatley, ed., Life and Letters of Mrs. Phoebe Palmer (New York: W.C. Palmer, 1881), 60, possibly in the letter of "July 27, 1874" to "My Beloved Sister Hamline."  Note that in the second paragraph of this excerpt, which extends onto p. 61, Palmer quotes "a minister friend who said that in going to the theater the evening when he was shot, Abraham Lincoln had departed from the 'shadow of the Almighty' (Ps. 91:1), which would [otherwise] have protected him" (Charles Edward White, The beauty of holiness:  Phoebe Palmer as theologian, revivalist, feminist, and humanitarian (Grand Rapids, MI:  Francis Asbury Press, Zondervan Publishing House, 1986), 153.
     If these paragraphs do occur in the aforementioned letter of 1874, then 1874 was the date of Palmer's (in this sense unshriven) death as well (!).
     My thanks to Dr. Douglas M. Strong for the quote-sleuthing occasion.