Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-time Memories: Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His Ancestry, Boyhood, Family, Religion, Public Life, Trials and Triumphs, Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volume 2Fleming H. Revell Company, 1917 - 570 pages |
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... complete than this has ever been made . It includes them all - Nation- ality , Liberty , Equal Rights and Self - government . These are the principles for which the Union soldier fought , and which it was his aim to maintain and to ...
... complete than this has ever been made . It includes them all - Nation- ality , Liberty , Equal Rights and Self - government . These are the principles for which the Union soldier fought , and which it was his aim to maintain and to ...
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... mutilated Bible in which Abraham Lin- coln so confidently believed . It was the complete volume of • Recollections of President Lincoln , pp . 448-451 . day Crection . Man is now the السكر one who 302 LATEST LIGHT ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... mutilated Bible in which Abraham Lin- coln so confidently believed . It was the complete volume of • Recollections of President Lincoln , pp . 448-451 . day Crection . Man is now the السكر one who 302 LATEST LIGHT ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... complete volume of revealed Truth , which the Church regards , and which he at that time and ever after regarded as an accurate historical record and an infallible rule of faith and practice . Mr. Lincoln's purpose in making these ...
... complete volume of revealed Truth , which the Church regards , and which he at that time and ever after regarded as an accurate historical record and an infallible rule of faith and practice . Mr. Lincoln's purpose in making these ...
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... is this expression of Presi- dent Lincoln's personal regard for " the great Book of God . " 5 Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln , Vol . X. , p . 218 . Those who , having heard him speak , as was 306 LATEST LIGHT ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... is this expression of Presi- dent Lincoln's personal regard for " the great Book of God . " 5 Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln , Vol . X. , p . 218 . Those who , having heard him speak , as was 306 LATEST LIGHT ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Page 307
... seemed stored with Bible truth and he was never at a loss for a passage just suited to his • Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln , Vol . I. , p . 180 . needs . In addition to the fact of his familiarity LINCOLN'S RELIGIOUS FAITH 307.
... seemed stored with Bible truth and he was never at a loss for a passage just suited to his • Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln , Vol . I. , p . 180 . needs . In addition to the fact of his familiarity LINCOLN'S RELIGIOUS FAITH 307.
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Page 340 - And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand : for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Page 466 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
Page 316 - I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them more than to yourself. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
Page 307 - Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Page 341 - To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 316 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Page 452 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Page 314 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 357 - The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and 'enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due 'regard for the Divine will, demand that Sunday labor in the I Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.
Page 466 - If there be in it any statements or assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not now and here controvert them. If there be any inferences •which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I