 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
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 197 pages
...invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just (rod's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat...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."... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - 2005 - 470 pages
...God: and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask just God's assistance in wringing their bread from...has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes."39 THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - 2006 - 648 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted...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!"... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 2006 - 292 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted...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 D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - 2007 - 216 pages
...dilemmas of faith, republicanism, and the demands of the presidential office during the Civil War. 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."... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 pages
...and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same (rod ; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may...His own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses ! for it must needs be that offense come ; but woe to that man by whom the offenses cometh."... | |
 | Dick Keyes - 2006 - 240 pages
...infallible representative on earth. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invoked His aid against the other. It may seem strange that...answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes — With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives it to us... | |
 | Gerson Moreno-Riaño - 2006 - 264 pages
...wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.6 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."7... | |
 | Thomas White, Jason G. Duesing, Malcolm B. Yarnell, III - 2007 - 212 pages
...encourage every American to read carefully President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, in which he said, "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God,...answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes." He continued: If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence... | |
 | Hugh Hewitt - 2007 - 311 pages
...that depth more visible than in his Second Inaugural Address of March 1865: "Both [North and South] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and...answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes." Even more to the point was his reply when a minister from the North told the president he "hoped the... | |
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