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Excerpt from Character and Services of Abraham Lincoln: A Sermon Preached in the Eutaw Methodist Episcopal Church, on the Day of National Humiliation and Mourning, Appointed by the President of the United States, Thursday, June 1, 1865
I select these words With no design to use them in their original reference. I take them merely as a motto for what I wish to say concerning the man in memory of whom this service is appointed. It is well the nation has been summoned to cease from its activities, and spend a day in contemplation of the scenes through which it has been passing. SO stirring and so stunning have been the events crowding on us recently, sweeping us so rapidly through all the possibilities of emo tion - casting us down, by one rude fall, from the raptures of rejoicing to a sorrow too deep for utterance or tears - that we have been disqualified to estimate their real magnitude. People stirred as we have been: dizzy, one day, with joy, and dumb, the next, with grief; in the very whirl and din of events, destined to fill the brightest and darkest pages history will write, have lacked the composure needful to their just appreciation. Timely, then, this day of pause and contemplation truly is, saddened, though it be, by memories of a sorrow we can never cease to feel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
