Posted on 11/16/2008 7:51:13 PM PST by freemike
September, 1862
This fragment was found and preserved by John Hay, one of President Lincoln's secretaries, who said it was not written to be seen of men."
"The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party -- and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true -- that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By his mere great power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And, having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds."
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Cannot believe I screwed up the title,,, that is suppose to be “Short” not “Sort.”
(shaking head with a sigh)
“A” for effort ;) (not too be too lefty about it)
Such insight. How far we have strayed from those times...thank you for sharing this.
Please correct title to Lincoln’s Short Meditation ...
You definitely need to pay attention to your typing skills.
"Sort Medication"? "Abraha, Lincold"? What the heck are you typing about?
FMCDH(BITS)
A great find! Thank you for posting it.
I know,, I did bad,,,
please forgive me.
I am ashamed.
It was in the 3rd year of Civil War, the Union losing, that Lincoln needed more enlistments and cash infusion, and decided upon the Emancipation Proclamtion, freeing the slaves. The Civil War was NOT fought to free the slaves. The shots fired at Ft Sumnter were upon ships carrying cotton to Europe wiithout paying export tarrifs. The issue was a States Rights vs Centralized Federal Control the very case upon which the Second Amendment was enacted. Lincoln had refused the abolitionist stance until he waqs banckrupt of money and soldiers. Upon the Emancipation, 300,000 freed slaves joined the Union forces and money poured in from Northeastern abolitionists. Lincoln was conflicted about the will of God for good reason.
How can I correct title?
I so totally screwed that up.
We’re all a little strung out lately.
When I first read your title, I thought it said, “Lincoln Snorted Medication...”
I have to believe that Almighty God will let goodness prevail over evil. That’s the only way to get through what is ahead of us. We cannot be defeated by negativity and continuous bad news. We must believe that the country will have it’s look at Marxism and reject it quickly before it destroys our Republic. I for one, am hopeful that we will have a second Reagan revolution of conservatism in the near future.
ROFL
I had such a nice post and I am just sitting here laughing at myself!
What the heck was I thinking while typing!
I’ll tell you,, it’s these stupid cats my wife got(God bless her, I lover her so much!)
They just keep jumping up on me whenever I sit down at the PC!
It was cute at first,, now I can’t stand them!
I thought that, too... except he snorted medication on Divine, Will (and Grace ?).
Either way, the title makes no sense.
I am laughing so freakin hard I’m crying!
It’s late.
“Lincoln snorted medication!”
Got to stop. it’s hurting too much.
ping
Thank goodness it’s the cats’ fault!
I thought perhaps you had stumbled on some new ultra-politically-correct biography of Lincoln that attempted to take the old guy down a notch (”See, everyone? Lincoln wasn’t so great. He snorted medication...just like our current president-elect”)
Anyway, pet the cats for us.
“Why don’t you come over to my log cabin, Abe ?”
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