Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not,... Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson - Page 262by William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...triumph, and a result less fundamental and astonishing. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God. Each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing bread from the sweat of other men's faces... | |
| United States dept. of state - 1866 - 760 pages
...Each looked for an easier Bible, and pray to the same God, and each invoke His aid against the other. triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge It may seem strange that... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 pages
...republic he said: " Neither party expected for 'the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the...the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invoke His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just Grod's... | |
| Edwards Pierrepont - Trials (Assassination) - 1867 - 130 pages
...remarkable words : "Neither party expected for the war the magnitnde or the duration which it has already ^ attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the...Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundacnental and astounding. Bott read the same Bible and pray to the same God ; and each invokes His... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...entering upon office. In allusion to the parties arrayed against each other in the war, he said, — • " Both, read the same Bible, and pray to the same God...the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but... | |
| Edwards Pierrepont - Trials (Assassination) - 1867 - 130 pages
...the magnitude or the duration which 5t has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause oi the conflict might cease with, or even before, the...triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Bott read the same Bible and pray to the same God ; and each invokes His aid against the other. It... | |
| Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause might cease with or even before the conflict itself...triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. 6. Both, read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, and each invoked His aid against the other.... | |
| American periodicals - 1867 - 894 pages
...— " Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less...fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, and each invoked hie aid against the other. It may seem strange that any man... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...territorial enlargement of it. 6. Both read the same Bible and prayed to the same God. and each invoked His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but... | |
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