Discourses Memorial of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, Delivered in Flemington (Classic Reprint) ~ Paperback ~ Pastors of the Different Churches

Excerpt from Discourses Memorial of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, Delivered in Flemington "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places. How are the mighty fallen! - II Samuel, 1: 19. The occasion which calls us together is of the most sadly-solemn and impressive character. - A nation is in mourning! - mourning for their honored and beloved chief, so suddenly, shockingly and mysteriously removed by death. Let all party feelings and other inferior considerations be laid aside as unworthy this sacred hour, that we may do honor to the illustrious dead and to our own citizenship by suitable expressions of sorrow. And let us fervently invoke the divine blessing on this day, both here and throughout the land, that this heavy affliction may be sanctified to all the nation. The foul deed which laid low in death our good and noble president, has no parallel in history. For enormity of conception and villainous execution it stands alone in horror, when viewed as to the station and character of the high mark. That one so good, so upright, so magnanimous, and so untiring in his devotion to the nation's interests, regardless of sections or classes, should be made the victim of such a fiendish conspiracy, was a stunning blow to all loyal hearts throughout the land. 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.