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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... morals may , in some degree , trace the resemblance . All of you that gained our love and raised our admi- ration still subsist , and will ever subsist , preserved in the minds of men , the register of ages and the records of fame ...
... morals may , in some degree , trace the resemblance . All of you that gained our love and raised our admi- ration still subsist , and will ever subsist , preserved in the minds of men , the register of ages and the records of fame ...
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... moral judgment . He does not make up the full issue for any individual until death occurs . But communities He judges here . He declares by his servant Malachi : " Then shall ye return , and discern between the righteous and the wicked ...
... moral judgment . He does not make up the full issue for any individual until death occurs . But communities He judges here . He declares by his servant Malachi : " Then shall ye return , and discern between the righteous and the wicked ...
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... moral responsibility . He was unsuspicious , - alas , alas , brethren , he was too unsuspicious ! he believed too much in the honor of those around him , and for this reason he sleeps upon his bier , while a nation bends in tears ...
... moral responsibility . He was unsuspicious , - alas , alas , brethren , he was too unsuspicious ! he believed too much in the honor of those around him , and for this reason he sleeps upon his bier , while a nation bends in tears ...
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... moral weight of our President's character and words . ་ I do not speak thus as one who blindly praises the dead . I have no desire to lift Mr. Lincoln into the upper region of a faultless manhood . I have no wish to forget the fact that ...
... moral weight of our President's character and words . ་ I do not speak thus as one who blindly praises the dead . I have no desire to lift Mr. Lincoln into the upper region of a faultless manhood . I have no wish to forget the fact that ...
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... moral strength of this people to - day comes from this fact ? Many a time have delegations from various organiza- tions gone to this First Citizen of America , and said : “ Mr. Lincoln , this people believe that you have been ...
... moral strength of this people to - day comes from this fact ? Many a time have delegations from various organiza- tions gone to this First Citizen of America , and said : “ Mr. Lincoln , this people believe that you have been ...
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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.