Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln : Voices From the Pulpit of New York And Brooklyn
The book Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln : Voices From the Pulpit of New York And Brooklyn was written by author Storrs, Richard S. (Richard Salter), 1821-1900 Here you can read free online of Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln : Voices From the Pulpit of New York And Brooklyn book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln : Voices From the Pulpit of New York And Brooklyn a good or bad book?
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Yet by what a terrible process have we been brought to a sense of duty and of obligation to him ! And oh ! that now, standing in the very presence of death, we n;iight feel that God is our sovereign, and that, as a nation, we owe him supreme allegiance ! 3. And in immediate connection with this thought, is not God, in this solemn and terrible providence, recalling tc our minds and consciences the sanctions and guards and 280 PEATn OF PRESIDENT LTNCOLN". penalties by whicli he has ever designed ...his law sliould be honored and human life preserved. Amid the earliest statutes ever given to man was that which guarded human life from violence, by requiring the life of the murderer. To Noah it was said : — '' Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." And that law was again and again repeated in such language as this : — " He that smiteth a man so that he die shall surely he put to death." "Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer which is guilty of death ; for blood defileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it." No one can read the word of God and not see how carefully he has thrown around human life the sanctions and penal- ties of his law.
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