The National Tragedy: Four Sermons Delivered Before the First Congregational Society, New Bedford, on the Life and Death of Abraham LincolnA. Taber & Brother, 1865 - 67 pages |
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Page 4
... hands . I pray , indeed , that thy will , O Lord , not ours , may be done , —but it is not thy will to slay the beauty of Israel on our high places , —it is the unsanctified , maddened , wicked will of man that has done this deed ...
... hands . I pray , indeed , that thy will , O Lord , not ours , may be done , —but it is not thy will to slay the beauty of Israel on our high places , —it is the unsanctified , maddened , wicked will of man that has done this deed ...
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... hand , just as he was going through the gates of victory to receive the crown of peace and of a nation's gratitude ... hands cannot bestow the crown which his have so nobly won , and that our eyes cannot see him wear it , moving with ...
... hand , just as he was going through the gates of victory to receive the crown of peace and of a nation's gratitude ... hands cannot bestow the crown which his have so nobly won , and that our eyes cannot see him wear it , moving with ...
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... hands over Fort Sumter , - of the open door and auspicious harbingers of peace . But " we looked for peace , and ... hand , on the very threshold of final victory , -it is for this that our hearts weep and almost refuse to be comforted ...
... hands over Fort Sumter , - of the open door and auspicious harbingers of peace . But " we looked for peace , and ... hand , on the very threshold of final victory , -it is for this that our hearts weep and almost refuse to be comforted ...
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... hands ; but there are eternal laws of divine justice to be nationally vindicated for white and for black ; and when we talk of magnanimity , we must not forget the race that has been waiting in patient suffering these many years for the ...
... hands ; but there are eternal laws of divine justice to be nationally vindicated for white and for black ; and when we talk of magnanimity , we must not forget the race that has been waiting in patient suffering these many years for the ...
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... hand upon the Lord's anointed . Providence permitted it : and the infinite Providence will neutralize and transform it , as it does all evil , into final good and blessing , we cannot doubt that : and yet divine Providence , for the ...
... hand upon the Lord's anointed . Providence permitted it : and the infinite Providence will neutralize and transform it , as it does all evil , into final good and blessing , we cannot doubt that : and yet divine Providence , for the ...
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