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There, now, let me pass on.""' The President and Cabinet in Prayer "On the day of the receipt of the news of the capitulation of Lee, as we learn from a friend intimate with the late President Lincoln, the Cabinet meeting was held an hour earlier than usual. Neither the Presi- dent nor any member was able, for a time, to give utterance to his feelings. At the suggestion of Mr. Lincoln all dropped on 1865] THE CHRISTIAN 179 their knees, and offered, in silence and in tears, their humble and hear...tfelt acknowl- edgments to the Almighty for the triumph He had granted to the national cause.""* The Resurrection of Human Freedom Colonel James M. Scovel, who, during the Civil War, was a State senator in New Jersey, tells this incident about Lincoln: "The last time I saw him he had just re- turned from Richmond. He beamed and radiated with happiness. A few days after April 9, which was the day of the Appo- mattox apple tree, he caught me by both hands — a way he had when emotionally exercised — and said (and I will recall these words in my dying hour): "Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be, what its Divine Author in- tended it to be — no longer one vast planta- tion for breeding human beings for the purposes of lust and bondage, but it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, wor- shiping a common God, and they will 180 ABRAHAM LINCOLN [i865 celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.""" "In God We Trust" Honorable Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the National House of Representatives, in a memorial address, April 24, 1865, says: "Nor should I forget to mention here that the last act of Congress ever signed by him was one requiring that the motto, in which he sincerely believed, 'In God we trust,' should hereafter be in- scribed upon all our national coin.""" His Last Speech Mr.
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