The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: A Lecture (Classic Reprint)

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States, he said of the two parties in the war, 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 ask a just God's assistance in wringing bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully; for the Almighty has his own purposes. 'woe unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come; but woe unto that man by whom the offence cometh.' If we suppose American slavery to be one of those offences which He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both this terrible war, as was due to those by whom the offence came, shall we say there is any departure from the divine attributes? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away; yet, if it be God's will that it continue until the wealth piled by bondsmen by two hundred and fifty years' unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' These last words shall be our text. The motto for our meditations on his decease shall be furnished by the lamented President himself, in the speech which he delivered within six weeks of that event.

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