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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... utter to - day in every loyal heart . Listen , my friends , for God's voice , as he shall utter in your stirred and agonized souls the moral of this awful tragedy . Listen and obey . The lesson must come . But I can only hint at it to ...
... utter to - day in every loyal heart . Listen , my friends , for God's voice , as he shall utter in your stirred and agonized souls the moral of this awful tragedy . Listen and obey . The lesson must come . But I can only hint at it to ...
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... , as it does ' all evil , into final good and blessing , we cannot doubt that : and yet divine Providence , for the very reason that it is infinitely good and holy , must shrink in utter aversion and horror from the sight of II. ...
... , as it does ' all evil , into final good and blessing , we cannot doubt that : and yet divine Providence , for the very reason that it is infinitely good and holy , must shrink in utter aversion and horror from the sight of II. ...
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... utter aversion and horror from the sight of such a crime . The whole race of humanity is stained by it , and the very heavens are blackened , and weep for shame . But I would not use this hour to utter even the just indignation and ...
... utter aversion and horror from the sight of such a crime . The whole race of humanity is stained by it , and the very heavens are blackened , and weep for shame . But I would not use this hour to utter even the just indignation and ...
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... utter the simple , naked facts . All rhetori- cal adornment seems but tinsel where there is such pure gold . I would keep strictly within the limits of truth and soberness , while I attempt , though with very inadequate success , to ...
... utter the simple , naked facts . All rhetori- cal adornment seems but tinsel where there is such pure gold . I would keep strictly within the limits of truth and soberness , while I attempt , though with very inadequate success , to ...
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... utter- ances of faith are sometimes of the Cromwellian order . Still , there was no rapture of divine communion , no enthusi- asm , no fanaticism . There was stern self - denial and self- consecration ; but no joyous abandonment of self ...
... utter- ances of faith are sometimes of the Cromwellian order . Still , there was no rapture of divine communion , no enthusi- asm , no fanaticism . There was stern self - denial and self- consecration ; but no joyous abandonment of self ...
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Page 66 - Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Page 56 - 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 66 - 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 60 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.
Page 63 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost.
Page 58 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just, and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way to all — gives hope to all, and consequent energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.
Page 35 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 62 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 58 - This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking anything.