1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The Nation's Wail. A Sermon on the Asssassination of the President Calvinism & so peerless are created

& so peerless are created

and probably took a special delight knowing his family history

In his always pastoral and deeply devotional way

have already been such as may well astonish the world

with a little occasional mirth

1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The Nation's Wail. A Sermon on the Asssassination of the President Calvinism & so peerless are createdExceptionally 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