 | Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll - History - 2003 - 652 pages
...From the Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither...conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier trjumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same... | |
 | Jacob Neusner - Religion - 2003 - 364 pages
...Lincoln reflected on how both sides in the Civil War had invoked religion in behalf of their cause: Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...his aid against the other. It may seem strange that men should dare ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces;... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...separated the two sections, they possessed a common religious bond in the travail they both were suffering. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. . . . The prayers of both could not be answered. . . . The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto... | |
 | Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 496 pages
...the Bible. In his second inaugural address on March A, 1865, Abraham Lincoln noted that both sides "read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other." Eliza's diary is a profound demonstration of why the secession movement in the South, which was initiated... | |
 | Heather Whitestone-McCallum, Angela Elwell Hunt - Religion - 2003 - 216 pages
...for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. . . . Both [North and South] read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. Referring to slavery, he continued, It may seem strange that any man should dare ask a just God's assistance... | |
 | D. A. Teunis - 2003 - 690 pages
...the obvious if God were to "pick sides" and show favor to one side over another. He said, "Both sides read the same Bible and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other." In fact, in Lincoln's second inaugural address, given in the month of March 1 865, he pointed out his... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
..."We won, and we want to send our enemies straight to hell." Lincoln reminded people that both sides "read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. . . .The prayers of both could not be answered." He had a wonderful way of giving his adversaries their... | |
 | William J. Federer - Law - 2003 - 292 pages
...entering upon this great office l must humbly invoke the God of our fathers..." Abraham Lincoln, 1 6th, "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid..." Andrew Johnson, 17th, "grief on earth which can only be assuaged by communion with the Father in heaven..."... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained," Lincoln continued. "Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding." Actually, Lincoln had anticipated "astounding" results for quite some time. Back in the summer of 1861,... | |
 | Ged Martin - History - 2004 - 332 pages
...the Civil War and the fate of slavery in 1865: 'Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither...easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.'4 Ignorance of the problems that would arise helps to explain the launching of massive... | |
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Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and... 
