Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln: Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington |
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... forever remain . We implore Thy blessing upon his bereaved family , Thou husband of the widow . Bless her who , broken- hearted and sorrowing , feels oppressed with unutterable anguish . Cheer the loneliness of the pathway which lies ...
... forever remain . We implore Thy blessing upon his bereaved family , Thou husband of the widow . Bless her who , broken- hearted and sorrowing , feels oppressed with unutterable anguish . Cheer the loneliness of the pathway which lies ...
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... forever eradicated . Preserve us , we pray Thee , from all complications with foreign nations . Give us hearts to act justly toward all nations , and grant unto them hearts to act justly toward us , that universal peace and happiness ...
... forever eradicated . Preserve us , we pray Thee , from all complications with foreign nations . Give us hearts to act justly toward all nations , and grant unto them hearts to act justly toward us , that universal peace and happiness ...
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... forever . Amen ! Phineha I. DR . GURLEY'S SERMON . As we stand here to - day , mourners around this coffin , and around the lifeless remains of our beloved chief magistrate , we recognize and we adore the sovereignty of God . His throne ...
... forever . Amen ! Phineha I. DR . GURLEY'S SERMON . As we stand here to - day , mourners around this coffin , and around the lifeless remains of our beloved chief magistrate , we recognize and we adore the sovereignty of God . His throne ...
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... forever in the urgent impending conflict . He rose to the dignity and momentousness of the occasion , saw his duty as the Chief Magistrate of a great and imperilled people , and he determined to do his duty , and his whole duty ...
... forever in the urgent impending conflict . He rose to the dignity and momentousness of the occasion , saw his duty as the Chief Magistrate of a great and imperilled people , and he determined to do his duty , and his whole duty ...
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... ― Our hearts are weary with the dull pain of repeating to ourselves he is gone , gone from us forever . - Hark , suffering hearts ! a voice from the upper world , — " Be still , and know that I am God DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN . 35.
... ― Our hearts are weary with the dull pain of repeating to ourselves he is gone , gone from us forever . - Hark , suffering hearts ! a voice from the upper world , — " Be still , and know that I am God DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN . 35.
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Page 10 - But some man will say, How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come...
Page 9 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But When he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
Page 305 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 302 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 237 - ... and as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead ? he is not here, but is risen.
Page 377 - Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. " The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high, Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie.
Page 212 - I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Page 8 - As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep : and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green, and groweth up : but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.
Page 118 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Page 366 - And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie : but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.