 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...the country for their constant prayers and consolations, and to no one of them more than yourself. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must...otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and Our own errors therein ; meanwhile, we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us, trusting that so... | |
 | Education - 1913 - 456 pages
...men are better than gold. This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must...mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. OUR PATRIOTIC SONGS. 1.... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) - 1893 - 460 pages
...them more than to yourself. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must prevail. We hoped for a termination of this terrible war long before this,...otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge his wisdom and our own errors. Meanwhile we must work earnestly. Surely he intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - Presidents - 1894 - 250 pages
...wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for that day." XX "We can not escape history." XX " The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must...may fail to accurately perceive them in advance." XX "Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and foe." 216 "I do not impugn the motives of... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for that day." XX "We can not escape history." XX " The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must...may fail to accurately perceive them in advance." XX "Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and foe." 216 "I do not impugn the motives of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them more than to yourself. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must...erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them iu advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this ; but God knows... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 174 pages
...be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us vietory." LETTER TO MRS. ELIZA P. GURNEY, SEPT. 30, 1864. " The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and...must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war, long before this ;... | |
 | 1895 - 328 pages
...since agreed that intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils among mankind. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail accurately to perceive them in advance. I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes, because... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...me, I shall not fail; I shall succeed. —Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and foe. —The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must...mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. —It is no pleasure to me to triumph over anyone. •—I do not impugn the motives of anyone opposed... | |
 | Wallace Foster - Patriotic poetry - 1898 - 120 pages
...agreed that intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils among mankind." "The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must...prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perfect them in advance." "Of the people, when they rise in mass in behalf of the Union and the liberties... | |
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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. 
