1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. National Disappointment. A Sermon on the Assassination of the President. Pentecostal Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

and speaks to you in an unlovely fashion

Two stanzas of "Tis not enough that we should stand still" by James Reynolds Withers

but solid and clean on the whole

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1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. National Disappointment. A Sermon on the Assassination of the President. Pentecostal Robert Murray M'Cheyne"At the outset of the rebellion, we were both unwilling and unable to believe that a civil war among us would ever actually come, till the suddent bombardment and fall of Sumter thrilled, like lightning, through the national heart, in the terrible conviction that civil war had already begun." "The President and the nation uttered . . . the immortal proclamation of January 1, 1863, by which the heathenish shackles were knocked at a blow from four