 | William E. Barton - 1920 - 416 pages
...than to yourself. The purposes of the Almighty. are. .periect, and, musLprevail, tfiough wireTrfrig mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance....terrible war long before this; but God knows best and ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must... | |
 | Education - 1900 - 478 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 fall to accurately perceive them In advance." "A nation may be said to consist of Its territory, Its... | |
 | 1921 - 386 pages
...extract from a letter to Mrs. EP Gurney, written in the last year of the Civil War: "We had hoped for a termination of this terrible war long before this;...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 working... | |
 | National Republican Club - 1927 - 392 pages
...with manly hearts." And toward the end, "The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must prevail. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible...ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom." Mr. Lincoln was not a self-made man, nor a luck-made man, but a God-made man. God needed him and God... | |
 | National Republican club inc - 1927 - 408 pages
...with manly hearts." And toward the end, "The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must prevail. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible...ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom." Mr. Lincoln was not a self-made man, nor a luck-made man, but a God-made man. God needed him and God... | |
 | Emanuel Hertz - 1927 - 774 pages
...faith, an immovable belief in the right, in the justice of eternal God moved him in his every action. "The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail accurately to perceive them in advance," was another of his winged sentences. Words more deeply religious... | |
 | United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission - Presidents - 1958 - 48 pages
...1863. Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, by James R. Gilmore, (1898), p. 158. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must...this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. — TO MRS. ELIZA GURNEY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1864. Whatever he designs, he will do for me yet. "Stand still... | |
 | Richard N. Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1958 - 326 pages
...war, Lincoln puzzled over the hidden aim of the Higher Power, but he did not doubt an aim was there. "The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must...may fail to accurately perceive them in advance," he wrote to his Quaker correspondent, Mrs. Gurney, in September, 1864 — after Grant had fought his... | |
 | History - 1991 - 630 pages
...Union and fraternal peace." But Lincoln also understood that God's purposes, whatever they might be, "are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals...long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise."8 Lincoln's deeply moving ideas, and the moving idiom in which he wrote them, contends Gushing... | |
 | Richard B. Miller - History - 1991 - 306 pages
...the Civil War, beliefs about redemption provided grammar for the cult of the dead. In Lincoln's mind, "We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible...this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. . . . Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make,... | |
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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. 
