A Tribute of Respect by the Citizens of Troy, to the Memory of Abraham LincolnYoung and Benson, 1865 - 342 pages |
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... faith in his God , his country , and his principles of freedom for all men , whatever their color and condition , he has stood unmoved amid the shock of armies and the clamors of faction ; he quailed not when defeat in the field seemed ...
... faith in his God , his country , and his principles of freedom for all men , whatever their color and condition , he has stood unmoved amid the shock of armies and the clamors of faction ; he quailed not when defeat in the field seemed ...
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... faith of the people in the liberator . Many touching proofs of the sin- cerity of these convictions were afforded during the struggle . In every public meeting of our countrymen when the name of President Lincoln was mentioned it was ...
... faith of the people in the liberator . Many touching proofs of the sin- cerity of these convictions were afforded during the struggle . In every public meeting of our countrymen when the name of President Lincoln was mentioned it was ...
Page xxxix
... faith in their future and our confident belief that we have so learned the lesson of our common history that even at this hour of their need they will show what strength a free Christian people have to bear up against the blow than ...
... faith in their future and our confident belief that we have so learned the lesson of our common history that even at this hour of their need they will show what strength a free Christian people have to bear up against the blow than ...
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... faith in his statesmanship as well as in his purity . Thus laboring and thus beloved , he lived to see the great rebellion crushed , the enemies of his country vanquished . In the hour of his country's triumph he is taken from us by the ...
... faith in his statesmanship as well as in his purity . Thus laboring and thus beloved , he lived to see the great rebellion crushed , the enemies of his country vanquished . In the hour of his country's triumph he is taken from us by the ...
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... faith and patience , humility and meek- ness , mortification and self - denial , charity and con- stant perseverance unto the end . And all this for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake , to whom , with thee and the Holy Ghost , be all ...
... faith and patience , humility and meek- ness , mortification and self - denial , charity and con- stant perseverance unto the end . And all this for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake , to whom , with thee and the Holy Ghost , be all ...
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Page 122 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword; as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said — "that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 14 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take : The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 13 - But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves ; ' This is the heir ; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Page 122 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 13 - Hear another parable: There was a certain householder which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country...
Page 329 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 53 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished ; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 122 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of these offences, which in the providence of God must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war...
Page 274 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 150 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.