Death of Abraham Lincoln
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Excerpt from Death of Abraham Lincoln: A Sermon, Preached in the Congregational Church in New Milford, Conn;, April 23, 1865 What a week has the last one been to the dwellers in this land! A mighty nation has bent in grief! The sable symbols of bursting hearts have been hung out everywhere! In sackcloth and ashes what millions have thronged God´s altars! Each day has been like a Sabbath! The ways of commerce and trade have been deserted! Men have moved about as though the day of doom had come - stunned and bewildered over the strange thing which has come to pass! God has made the nation to drink the wine of astonishment! We have been as those that dream! And it will be many days yet before the people shall have waked from their trance to the sad reality, that he who has been a prince and a father to them during these years of awful trial is with them no more. It is no small nor common grief which pierces the heart of this people; and it will be long ere that grief shall have spent its force. There is nothing like a common suffering to soften and weld human hearts! The survivors of the wreck: the few of the forlorn hope who come through the breach; the last hundred of the besieged, whose numbers have dwindled from thousands to scores, by being partakers in a common calamity, are forever bound together by a cord of sympathy and fellowship which cannot be broken. And we who have been in the ship during these awful storms, and seen how she has labored and fought the tempest, and after nights of darkness and hair-breadth escapes, has at last come safely through - can we see our good pilot, who has been with us in these perils, and stood at his post so faithfully, and held the helm with such a strong and wise and steady hand, suddenly stricken down and swept from the deck, without feeling that we have suffered a great loss, and without lamenting with a great and sore lamentation? No. 1. Thank God! it is not in human nature not to mourn in such circumstances. Black is the day that saw him cast down from our midst! Accursed the hand that raised itself against his venerated head! Sad and bitter is the thought that honest, great hearted Abraham Lincoln sits no longer in the seat into which the people once and again lifted him with such glad unanimity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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