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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... rebellion shall have been wiped out , and until slavery , its cause , shall be forever eradicated . Preserve us , we pray Thee , from all complications with foreign nations . Give us hearts to act justly toward all nations , and grant ...
... rebellion shall have been wiped out , and until slavery , its cause , shall be forever eradicated . Preserve us , we pray Thee , from all complications with foreign nations . Give us hearts to act justly toward all nations , and grant ...
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... rebellion ; his readiness to spend and be spent for the attainment of such a triumph , a triumph , the blessed fruits of which shall be as wide - spreading as the earth , and as enduring as the sun . All these things commanded and fixed ...
... rebellion ; his readiness to spend and be spent for the attainment of such a triumph , a triumph , the blessed fruits of which shall be as wide - spreading as the earth , and as enduring as the sun . All these things commanded and fixed ...
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... rebellion be endowed with such executive power and the ability to employ , directly or indirectly , the black - hearted assassin to invade so noble a life , and rob a nation of its polar star ? " Be still , and know that I am God ...
... rebellion be endowed with such executive power and the ability to employ , directly or indirectly , the black - hearted assassin to invade so noble a life , and rob a nation of its polar star ? " Be still , and know that I am God ...
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... rebellion has scorched the very air men breathe , and withered all the finer sentiments of the human soul , and turned the very fountains of religious life into poisonous springs ; there , if an Abdiel has been found , " faithful among ...
... rebellion has scorched the very air men breathe , and withered all the finer sentiments of the human soul , and turned the very fountains of religious life into poisonous springs ; there , if an Abdiel has been found , " faithful among ...
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... rebellion , this series of victories filling the nation with joy and thankfulness , this horrible crime filling the nation with grief and dis- may , are all revelations of God . His language in the events which cheer and gladden you is ...
... rebellion , this series of victories filling the nation with joy and thankfulness , this horrible crime filling the nation with grief and dis- may , are all revelations of God . His language in the events which cheer and gladden you is ...
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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.