1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The Nation's Wail. A Sermon on the Asssassination of the President Calvinism Mather Byles of Boston

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1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The Nation's Wail. A Sermon on the Asssassination of the President Calvinism Mather Byles of BostonExceptionally 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