. Short life of Abraham Lincoln. eof light, thrilling the speaker and giving to the people,as he thought, an omen of the triumph that was sonear at hand. The Almighty has his own purposes, he declared. Woe unto the world because of offenses ! for it mustneeds be that offenses come; but woe to that man bywhom the offense cometh. If we shall suppose thatAmerican slavery is one of those offenses which, in theprovidence of God, must needs come, but which, havingcontinued through His appointed time. He now wills toremove, and that He gives to both North and Souththis terrible war, as the woe due to
. Short life of Abraham Lincoln. eof light, thrilling the speaker and giving to the people,as he thought, an omen of the triumph that was sonear at hand. The Almighty has his own purposes, he declared. Woe unto the world because of offenses ! for it mustneeds be that offenses come; but woe to that man bywhom the offense cometh. If we shall suppose thatAmerican slavery is one of those offenses which, in theprovidence of God, must needs come, but which, havingcontinued through His appointed time. He now wills toremove, and that He gives to both North and Souththis terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom theoffense came, shall we discern therein any departurefrom those divine attributes which the believers in aliving God always ascribed to Him? Fondly do wehope — fervently do we pray — that this mightyscourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if Godwills that it continue until all the wealth piled by thebondsmans two hundred and fifty years of unrequitedtoil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn. H i ^ 9 2 o. 1-^ CS PEACE 125 with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with thesword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still itmust be said, The judgments of the Lord are trueand righteous altogether. * With malice toward none; with charity for all;with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see theright, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ;to bind up the nations wounds ; to care for him whoshall have borne the battle, and for his widow, andhis orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherisha just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with aBnations. The change that the years of war had made in thePresident was noted by every one. When 1 last sawhim, Horace Greeley tells us, I was struck by hishaggard, care-fraught face, so different from the sunny,gladsome countenance he first brought from felt that his life hung by so slender a thread thatany new access of trouble or excess of effort mightsuddenly close his ca
Size: 1269px × 1970px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubje, booksubjectpresidents
