A Sermon Preached on the Sunday After the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States, Together With Remarks Made on the Day of His Funeral (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Sermon Preached on the Sunday After the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States, Together With Remarks Made on the Day of His Funeral

Draw close to him for strength and consolation, trusting that he who has watched over us so long will not leave us now. But yet how empty will now the grandest triumphs seem. The thought of his honest, well earn cd gladness brought to us one of the purest joys of victory. His quaint and quiet words seemed first to express worthily the nation's rejoicing.' Without him jubilee will be like mourning. The assassin chose well the object of his stroke.' With one blow he pierced.

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