...offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He...terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers...

...that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from...in a living God always ascribe to Him. Fondly do we hope—perfectly do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills...

...the combatants, as though it were a responsibility to prosecute it as well as a punishment to endure: "[H]e gives to both North and South, this terrible...as the woe due to those by whom the offence came." It may be supposed, Lincoln argues, that as instrumentalities of Providence, the North and the South...

...blame not only to a slave-holding South, but also to a complacent and sinful North, he argued that God "gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came." And he ended his address with an invocation concurrent with that of "Born in the USA": With malice...

...solutions to the problem of the twentieth century, the color line, as we enter the twenty-first. If he gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers...

...ridiculously wasteful Civil War, believing, as he put it in his second inaugural address, that God gave "to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came," is perhaps the greatest modern representative, but Marcus Aurelius fits as well. Or...

...come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers...

...offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He...ascribe to Him, Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God will that it continue,...

...offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He...the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? If, Lincoln says, God gave us this war as punishment, should we be surprised? In other words, if this...

...offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He...to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern there any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe...