Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Great Man Fallen! A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln: Delivered in St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, Sunday Morning, April 23, 1865
Twice, my friends, since this awful crime was com mitted, have we assembled in this church. Upon Easter Day we sought to catch the Spirit of the service and ascend gladly in our hearts to the risen and glorified Saviour. We sought to meditate upon the precious hopes given us and the triumph achieved for us in His resurrection. But how sad and fruitless all our efforts. A great woe pressed heavily upon our hearts. Easter joys were turned into mourning, songs of thankfulness into notes of sadness and bereavement. Our thoughts and feelings would not but ?ow mournfully through the dark valley of afiiicti on into which we had been called as a nation to enter. We could not, from very weep ing, sing the songs of Zion.
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