. The life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. V =0. ADDRESS AT LINCOLNS GRAVE. 395 While we waited for a copy to be made, which shouldbe kept by the president, there was a general conversationrelative to public matters and on the state of the Method-ist Church in the South; and it was amusing to see howMr. Lincoln evaded a direct answer to Bishop Amess re-quest for an opinion relative to our rights to the Methodistchurches in the South.* But, alas! for us, the resting of the country for four yearsin Abrahams bosom, as it was playfully expressed byGranville Moody, was
. The life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. V =0. ADDRESS AT LINCOLNS GRAVE. 395 While we waited for a copy to be made, which shouldbe kept by the president, there was a general conversationrelative to public matters and on the state of the Method-ist Church in the South; and it was amusing to see howMr. Lincoln evaded a direct answer to Bishop Amess re-quest for an opinion relative to our rights to the Methodistchurches in the South.* But, alas! for us, the resting of the country for four yearsin Abrahams bosom, as it was playfully expressed byGranville Moody, was not to be. It was ordered far other-wise. After giving to the country a second inaugural address,which the London Spectator characterized as the loftiest, inits moral tone, of the political papers of this century, was assassinated. The rejoicing over the capture ofRichmond, and the still heartier rejoicing over the surrenderof Lees army, was changed into a sorrow which soughtevery conceivable form of expression. Bishop Simpson wasat once summoned to Washington t
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