 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
 | Janet Kay - 2004 - 522 pages
...March 1 865, a month before he was assassinated. Speaking of the two sides in the Civil War, he says: Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God,...has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of its offences! For it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!'... | |
 | Mike Higton - 2004 - 310 pages
...March 1 865, a month before he was assassinated. Speaking of the two sides in the Civil War, he says: Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God,...has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of its offences! For it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!'... | |
 | Frederick Dale Bruner - 2007 - 653 pages
...address is downright evangelical, profoundly spiritual, and yet prophetic: "Both jsides in the conflictj read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and...answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes" (p. 333l. Robinson leffers in the last century saw the problem: "We obey in fact, consciously or not,... | |
 | Philip Goff, Paul Harvey - 2004 - 404 pages
...echoed sermons they had heard. He used prophetic biblical language skillfully for political purposes. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask...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."... | |
 | William J. Federer - 2004 - 504 pages
...INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 45 DAYS BEFORE HIS ASSASSINATION: "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God.... The prayers of both could not be answered. That of...has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of offenses'. ..Yet. if God will that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsmen's two hundred... | |
 | William J. Federer - 2004 - 180 pages
...INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 45 DAYS BEFORE HIS ASSASSINATION: "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God. ...The prayers of both could not be answered. That...has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of offenses'.. .Yet, if God will that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsmen's two hundred... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 pages
...that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. ..Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God,...offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to the man by whom the offence cometh! [quoting from Matthew]. If we shall suppose that American... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 pages
...the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease...Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God, and...offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to the man by whom the offence cometh! [quoting from Matthew]. If we shall suppose that American... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 pages
...itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astonishing. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...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!"... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 pages
...the nation's alienated citizens in the South. There were no unbridgeable differences, he insisted: "Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes." In his Springfield speech a decade earlier, Lincoln had maintained that he could not condemn the South... | |
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