...Meditation on the Divine Will, September [30?], 1862 The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both maybe, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the...

...that no one had anticipated. Given the course of "the present civil war," Lincoln had to concede that it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party. . . . Iam almost ready to say this is probably true. After all, God, by his mere quiet power, on the...

...looks ahead to die language of die Second Inaugural: The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of...time. In the present civil war it is quite possible diat God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party — and yet the human instrumentalities,...

...party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time....is something different from the purpose of either party—and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to...

...words in his "Meditation on the Divine Will" that God's and man's intentions were likely distinct: "In the present civil war it is quite possible that...different from the purpose of either party — and yet, human instrumentalities, working as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose" (2:359)....

...Phillips had proclaimed him publicly to be "a first-rate second-rate man."47 on paper, only for himself: "In the present civil war it is quite possible that...something different from the purpose of either party. ... I am almost ready to say this is probably true — that God wills this contest, and wills that...

...of the Union army's disastrous defeats at Bull Run. The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible...

...weight, leading him to meditate. "In great contests," he wrote in a fragment found among his pages, "each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible...

...bringing the war to a close, Lincoln scratched his tortured thoughts on paper: In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.. .In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose...

...bringing the war to a close, Lincoln scratched his tortured thoughts on paper: In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong...In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from...