 | Mike Higton - Religion - 2004 - 310 pages
...March 1 865, a month before he was assassinated. Speaking of the two sides in the Civil War, he says: Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God,...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... | |
 | Chad R. Abbott, Everett Mitchell - Political Science - 2004 - 328 pages
...struggle for people of faith on both sides to discern the failure of God to listen to their own prayers: Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...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... | |
 | Keith F. Pecklers - Religion - 2003 - 244 pages
...worship. Writing after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln articulated such divisions among the rival camps: 'Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces;... | |
 | Michael P. Melon - Religion - 2004 - 270 pages
...to a nation in crisis. Speaking of the North and the South and the issue of slavery, Lincoln said, Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...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... | |
 | Susan Jacoby - History - 2004 - 433 pages
...ministers in 1863 — the fact that both northern and southern combatants believed God to be on their side: Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...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... | |
 | Frederick Dale Bruner - Religion - 2007 - 653 pages
...address is downright evangelical, profoundly spiritual, and yet prophetic: "Both jsides in the conflictj read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and...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... | |
 | E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - Religion - 2004 - 260 pages
...Address, all the more remarkable for being uttered after almost four years of civil war: "Both [sides] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and...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... | |
 | William Charles Harris - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 332 pages
...(the Almighty, Lord), on eight occasions. He began with an irony. Both sides in the conflict, he said, "read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and...His aid against the other." "It may seem strange," he continued, "that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. . . . Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other." Lincoln then suggested that God gave America — both North and South — the war as punishment for... | |
 | Evan Wolfson - Law - 2007 - 258 pages
...religious self-righteousness, Abraham Lincoln long ago noted that during the Civil War, "Both [sides] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other." Lincoln, a man of immense moral character and vision, urged his fellow countrymen, us, both to act... | |
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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... 
