 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 4341872 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas White, Jason G. Duesing, Malcolm B. Yarnell, III - 2007 - 195 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... | |
 | Robert J. Miller - 2007 - 243 pages
...invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God '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.... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 2003 - 608 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... | |
 | Tim Jorgenson - 2007 - 236 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 - 284 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 - 229 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... | |
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