1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The Nation's Wail. A Sermon on the Asssassination of the President Calvinism knowing that the South needed

knowing that the South needed closure to begin healing

I shall continue to keep him at my own expense & my only reason for not having determined to do so at first

friend and biographee of Jonathan Edwards and missionary to the Susquehanna Indians

Mather Byles of Boston

1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The Nation's Wail. A Sermon on the Asssassination of the President Calvinism knowing that the South neededExceptionally important sermon on the assassination of Lincoln by George Duffield. "The nation is deluged with woe. Our patriotic, virtuous and devoted President has fallen by the hand of the assassin. In the midst of our rejoicings over victories, and the crushing of the rebellion; from the loftiest pinnacle of our joy, we are hurled down into the depths of heart breaking anguish. He, for whom the nation ha so long and ardently prayed, whose appeals