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... question and of stating each as strongly as he could was in part responsible for the misappre- hensions of some who have held a superficial view of his religious life , and that his intimate friend Noah Brooks writing as early as 1872 a ...
... question and of stating each as strongly as he could was in part responsible for the misappre- hensions of some who have held a superficial view of his religious life , and that his intimate friend Noah Brooks writing as early as 1872 a ...
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... question we have now to answer . In giving Abraham Lincoln his undisputed place among the men of God who have taught us how to find the proper answer to this question , the author of this volume has rendered a service as opportunely ...
... question we have now to answer . In giving Abraham Lincoln his undisputed place among the men of God who have taught us how to find the proper answer to this question , the author of this volume has rendered a service as opportunely ...
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... questions involving the capacity of mankind for self - govern- ment , the possible elimination of the institution of human slavery from the social order , the effect of freedom on the development of ideal social and industrial ...
... questions involving the capacity of mankind for self - govern- ment , the possible elimination of the institution of human slavery from the social order , the effect of freedom on the development of ideal social and industrial ...
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... questions of the day , and gathered from each other the drift of national tendencies , the progress of settlement , and the spread of religious sentiment . Naturally these exchanges , however , centred in their exuberant religious life ...
... questions of the day , and gathered from each other the drift of national tendencies , the progress of settlement , and the spread of religious sentiment . Naturally these exchanges , however , centred in their exuberant religious life ...
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... questions , no power could turn him from advocating the right and proclaim- ing the truth . An incident is related which shows his native honesty , even in his boyhood days . His step- sister , Matilda Johnston , followed Abe one morn ...
... questions , no power could turn him from advocating the right and proclaim- ing the truth . An incident is related which shows his native honesty , even in his boyhood days . His step- sister , Matilda Johnston , followed Abe one morn ...
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Page 354 - ... it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Page 354 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 355 - 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...
Page 354 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 324 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Page 184 - All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full recognition, as being right ; but thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them ? Can we cast our votes with their view, and against our own ? In view of our moral, social, and...
Page 182 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 350 - The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
Page 355 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 48 - Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no distinction in adding story to story, upon the monuments of fame, erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves, or enslaving freemen.