Sermon Occasioned by the Assassination of President Lincoln
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Excerpt from Sermon Occasioned by the Assassination of President Lincoln: Delivered April 16, 1865; In First Presbyterian Church, of Paterson, N. J "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen".2 Samuel 1: 19. These recent crimes, that fill our land with mourning, are terrible evidences of what some affect to doubt - the existence of the Devil and his active and malign influence on human affairs. Human nature, bad as it is, would be incapable of such deeds, but for the instigations of Hell. These crimes are more than inhuman; they are diabolical, they are fiendish; and the very terms we use to describe them require us to believe in demoniacal and Satanic influences exerted over wicked men. Do not imagine that I allow myself to be carried away by the transports of passion and indulge in that exaggeration of language in which the intenser emotions of our nature seek to lose and engulph themselves. No, I never spoke with more deliberation and a stronger conviction of my own judgment. If any are disposed to retort in the language of Festus, "Thou art beside thyself; the excitement of these horrible times have made thee mad:" I will answer in the words of Paul, "I am not mad, most self-complacent hearer, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness." In simple earnest, I do not see how it is possible to explain the conduct of the South and its abettors in this cruel war, without attributing much of it to the suggestions of the Devil. Their policy has been so suicidal, so opposed to any ordinary degree of human sagacity, so adverse to the individual interests of those personally engaged in it and to the well-being of mankind at large, that we arc compelled to look for some explanation of it beyond the ordinary realms of human motive and action. 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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