 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 a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...  A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 4361872 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William T. Alexander - 1887 - 654 pages
...the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in Jtmnging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but...answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. ***** "If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses, which in the Providence... | |
 | Sam van Clemen - 2007 - 260 pages
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 | Tim Jorgenson - 2007 - 238 pages
...faces, hut let us judge not that we be not judged. There was a smattering of applause in the crowd. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of...has His own purposes. (Woe unto the world because of offenses! For it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!... | |
 | Mbijiwe Mwenda - 2008 - 286 pages
...all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.,. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less...has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."... | |
 | Carson Holloway - 2008 - 244 pages
...the nation's wounds. Noting the irony of each side invoking God's aid against the other, he states: Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.74 Then, paraphrasing Genesis 3:18, Lincoln points to the manifest incompatibility between... | |
 | John W. Hill - 2008 - 444 pages
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