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YALE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

Gift of
STUART W. JACKSON
Yale 1898

SERMON

ON THE ASSASSINATION OF

ABEAHAM LINCOLN.

PREACHED AT

Stmreg (£|ra:p£l, i^mbott,
SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1865.
BY
REV. NEWMAN HALL.

BOSTON:
BARTLETT AND HALLIDAY.
1865.

SERMON.

In the Inaugural Address delivered by the late lamented
President on his re-appointment as supreme governor of the
United States, he said of the two parties in the war, " Both
read the same Bible and pray to the same God ; each invokes
his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any man
should dare ask a just God's assistance in wringing bread from
the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be
not judged. The. prayer of both could not be answered : that
of neither has been answered fully ; for the Almighty has his
own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offences, for
it must needs be that offences come ; but woe unto that man
by whom the offence cometh.' If we suppose American slavery
to be one of those offences which he now wills to remove, and
that he gives to both this terrible war, as was due to those by
whom the offence came, shall we say there is any departure
from the divine attributes ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do
we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass
away: yet if it be God's will that it continue until the wealth
piled by bondmen by two hundred and fifty years' unrequited
toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with
the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, —
as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said,
that ' the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous alto
gether.' "
These words shall be our text. The motto for our medita
tions on his decease shall be furnished by the lamented Presi
dent himself in the speech which he delivered within six weeks
of that event.

Ps. xix. 9 : " The judgments," #c.
The judgments of the Lord are his revealed will, contained
in holy Scripture, of which we say with David, " The statutes
of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart ; the commandment
of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes." But God speaks
in providence as well as in Scripture. His judgments are his
acts as well as his words : it is our interest and duty to study
both. Some persons object to ministers of the gospel referring
in their sermons to public events. They say we ought to
preach Christ crucified, and not talk about statesmen, rulers,
or philanthropists. Certainly ; and a grievous dereliction of
duty it would be, a sad prostitution of the Church and the
Sabbath, if any secular theme were substituted for the glorious
gospel of the blessed God. But may not passing events be
made a vehicle for conveying truth to the mind ? What is the
value of abstract truths if never practically applied ? The
events of God's providence should be contemplated in relation
to God's gospel. Instead of keeping religion distinct from the
interests of life, and thus rendering those interests merely
secular, and really godless, we should endeavor to hallow and
elevate all those interests — domestic, commercial, political —
by Christian faith and Christian feeling. Did the Jewish
prophets . never refer to political events? Their inspired min
istry was directed, in the first instance, to their own age, and
had a constant bearing on the great national events then trans
piring. Did not our Lord himself illustrate his teaching by
reference to things secular ? Is not the Bible full of truth
embodied ? of lessons drawn from the lives of men and the
dealings of Providence ?
There has been no death in our own day more remarkable,
none which will have a more prominent place in all future
history, than the assassination of President Lincoln. If it
was appropriate that every pulpit in our land should make
allusion to the death of our lamented Prince Consort, if the
omission would have argued a culpable disloyalty, — is it not
right, that, in all the churches of America, sermons have been
delivered with special reference to the death of the President ?
If we were bereaved as a nation, should we not feel grateful
for the sympathy of Americans if they also, in public worship,

alluded to our loss ? So also is it fitting, that throughout our
country such sympathy in public worship has been and still
is manifested, especially when we consider the unparalleled
atrocity of the deed which has deprived them of their chief
magistrate, and the peculiar crisis of affairs at which he has
been taken from them.
Besides, we are one people. We have sprung from the same
Anglo-Saxon stock. The same mother-country gave us birth.
The Pilgrim Fathers who colonized New England planted
there that freedom to worship God, which was then denied
them here, but which their posterity, both here and there,
equally prize as more saored than life. We speak the same
language, cherish the same traditions, read the same Bible,
and sing the same hymns to the same tunes. We are ani
mated by the same quenchless passion for liberty. Tens of
thousands of our teeming population find a home there every
year. Who has not yonder some near relative, friend, or ac
quaintance ? How many look to America as the land where,
however unlikely it may seem at present, they may possibly
end their days ! We are linked together by a thousand ties,
so that their prosperity is our prosperity, and their honor is
our honor. Their sorrows are our sorrows too. Let us then
" bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."
Let us " rejoice with those who do rejoice, and weep with those
who weep."
There is cause for lamentation. A good and a great man
has fallen by the hand of an assassin, who thought that, in
striking down the nation's head, he was striking down the
nation itself. The universal grief in America shows how he
was honored and beloved. Twice chosen by the free voice of
millions of his fellow-citizens to rule over them in the most
momentous crisis of their history ; twice chosen to steer the
vessel of the State amid waves that threatened to overwhelm it ;
exposed to their keen scrutiny in all his public and private
act3) — he has won their universal homage and affection. Be
neath an exterior unlike that which is generally found in
courts, and whicli gave occasion to vulgar satirists to utter
their rude jests, there beat a heart to which courts have been
too much strangers. In President Lincoln there was a com-

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bination of honesty, sagacity, magnanimity, and gentleness,
such as few rulers have ever manifested. He was faithful
to the trust imposed on him. He was firm to the purpose he
had maturely formed. He was true to the nation whose in
tegrity he was sworn to maintain. He was true to those
principles of freedom he had always professed and loved. He
would not allow his benevolent impulses to lead him away
from what he considered his duty to the State which he had
engaged to govern according to law. Neither would he allow
his official position to deaden and keep in abeyance those
impulses. The fear of misrepresentation, the charge of in
consistency, did not cause him to waver in the course he had
marked out for himself. He faithfully administered those
laws ; but, as fast as circumstances gave him the opportunity
constitutionally to modify those laws in the interest of eman
cipation, such opportunity was promptly embraced. Those
who have not studied the peculiar Constitution of the United
States cannot appreciate the difficulty of the position of a
President urged on one side by a powerful party and his oath
to observe the laws ; and urged on the other side by another
powerful party and his benevolent sentiments to abolish slavery.
History will honor him for having accomplished both tasks.
In all his intercourse with this country, he manifested dignity
combined with courtesy and kind feeling. He was prompt to
satisfy every righteous demand without compromising the
honor of his own nation. To his justice and moderation it is
partly owing that peace was maintained between the two coun
tries on more than one occasion of difficulty. In the conduct
of the war he united firmness with clemency. He was often
censured as being unfeeling because he persisted in prosecut
ing a contest which cost so many lives. This was said to be
fighting for empire. But fighting for empire is fighting for
new territory, not fighting for the maintenance of nationality.
To guard one's own country from disintegration is surely not
fighting for empire. No empire in the world would contend
more earnestly than our own for self-preservation. It was not,
therefore, indifference to suffering, but a high sense of duty to
his country, which led him with such perseverance to maintain
the strife. But no one ever conducted a war, or governed a

nation amidst such perils, with so much clemency combined
with firmness.
One or two illustrations of his personal kindness have just
come to my knowledge through a friend who has recently re
turned from the United States. This gentleman told me that
he was one day conversing with the general in command of
one of the armies on the subject of desertions, when the gen
eral said, " The first week of my command there were twenty-
four deserters sentenced by court-martial to be shot ; and the
warrants for their execution were sent to the President to be
signed : he refused. I went to Washington and had an inter
view. I said, ' Mr. President, unless these men are made an
example of, the army itself is in danger. Mercy to the few is
Cruelty to the many.' He replied, ' Mr. General, there are
already too many weeping widows in the United States. For
God's sake, don't ask' me to add to the number, for I won't do
it.' ' A young sentry was found asleep at his post: he was
sentenced to be shot. But the President came into camp and
granted the earnest petition of the lad. The dead body of that
youth was afterwards found amongst the slain on the field of
Fredericksburg, and under his waistcoat, next his heart, was a
photograph of the President, beneath which the lad had writ
ten, " God bless President Lincoln ! " Many similar incidents
might be cited to show how tender-hearted he was, and how
deeply he was beloved by multitudes who have received from
him personal marks of kindness.
That he rose from a most humble station only illustrates the
more the high qualities he possessed, enabling him to overcome
the disadvantages of poverty. He was great enough not to be
ashamed of his origin. When a parcel, carefully packed, was
sent to the White House, which, being opened, "was found to
contain a woodman's axe, instead of being angry at this vulgar
allusion to his former occupation, he ordered it to be placed in
a prominent position, on a handsome mahogany stand, that all
might see that he honored labor, and was not ashamed that he
once ate his bread by the sweat of his brow.
There is every reason to believe that he was more than a
mere professor of Christianity. When he left Illinois for Wash
ington, his last request to his fellow-citizens was, that they would

pray for him. It is said that he habitually rose at five o'clock,
and spent an hour in devotion. The inaugural address already
quoted breathes a deeply religious spirit. So do many of his
public documents and private letters. In a letter dated April
4, 1864, he says, " If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
If God now wills the removal of the great wrong, and wills
also that we of the North as well as you of the South shall pay
fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will
find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and
goodness of God."
This " wrong " of slavery, he, more than any other man of
our day, has been instrumental in removing. It was his well-
known hostility to it, which, on his election, was the proximate
and avowed cause of the Rebellion. As far as his pledges to
the law and the course of events permitted, he steadily pur
sued this great object. Under his auspices, slavery was speedily
abolished in Columbia, and prohibited in the Territories. The
slave-trade was declared penal, and the right of search fully
granted. The loyal States were invited to emancipate their
slaves, full compensation being offered. Then the proclamation
was issued by which all slaves in rebel States were declared
free ; and though, for a season, this was inoperative over a large
district, it is now not only law but fact. During the war, two
millions of slaves actually gained their freedom, and were pro
tected wherever the power of the President extended. And now,
throughout those Southern States, long a house of cruel bond
age, the jubilee trumpet is sounding deliverance to the captive
and the opening of the prison to them that were bound. Four
millions of freedmen bless God for Abraham Lincoln !
At the very culmination of his labors, — just as he saw the
failure of the attempt to disintegrate the nation, and to found
a rival empire on slavery as its corner-stone, — just as he saw
the triumph of emancipative victory crowning his skill and per
severance, he was snatched from the scene of his toils and his
triumphs. The whole world execrates the deed. All future
history will stigmatize it as the blackest of crimes. But for
the victim himself shall we lament ? Being, as we trust he
was, a sincere Christian, sudden death to him was sudden glory.
He found himself in heaven before he expected. Freed from

the anxious cares of government, in a season of peculiar diffi
culty, he was suddenly " where the wicked cease from trou
bling, and-the weary are at rest." Having done well what he
was spared to do, he is now beyond the possibility of tarnishing
his fair fame by the mistakes to which all men are liable.
Having died a victim to the hatred which the slavery spirit
ever bears to the stanch friends of freedom, he will be known
to all coming generations, not only as the honest, the magnani
mous, the merciful President, but as the pure and illustrious
martyr of American emancipation ; so that, whether we con
sider his condition in the other world or his reputation in this,
we cannot pity him. The bullet of the murderer was a quick
summons to the joys of heaven, and an effectual guaranty of
fame on earth.
We need not lament for Lincoln ; but we may and do la
ment for his family and for his nation. Let our tender sympa
thy go forth towards her, who, sitting at his side, all uncon
scious of the coming blow, was suddenly bereft of the endeared
companion of so many years, during which they had shared to
gether both hardship and honor. Our beloved Queen, with
that prompt, spontaneous kindness of heart whicli she manifests
to all sufferers, — one royal widow to another, — with her own
hand wrote to express her sympathy. There is not one of her
subjects, who, if possible, does not love her the more for, and
in spirit join her in, that act.
We lament for the nation. They have lost their chosen ru
ler, whose fitness for his exalted post had been severely tested
and fully confirmed ; under whose administration the empire
had been preserved from disruption, and freed from what had
been its weakness and dishonor ; and whose wisdom and clem
ency marked him out as specially competent to complete the
work of pacification and reconstruction. Our brethren yon
der feel as if each of them had lost his own father. Never
was such wide-spread, spontaneous, and universal grief. Whole
cities hung with black are a feeble expression of the sorrow
that is felt. Commerce suspends her trafficking, Mammon for
gets his hoards, Pleasure arrays herself in sackcloth, to join
the general lamentation. From twenty thousand churches,
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prayers for consolation and for succor in this their hour of pub-.
lie and of private woe. Let us join them in such prayers ! It
will be our best expression of good will. It will be the
most solemn and most effectual sympathy. We have already
often implored for America under this bereavement the special
help of Heaven. We have done it in public, we have done it
in private. Let us do it expressly and emphatically now !
Yes : let us, one and all, once more, with affectionate fervor,
implore for our bereaved sister nation the' guidance, protection,
and comfort of the compassionate God and Father of all ! Let
us pray.
King of kings, Lord of lords, the universal Ruler, who doest according
to thy pleasure in the armies of heaven and amongst the inhabitants of
the earth ! we adore thy power and majesty, thy wisdom and goodness,
thy righteousness and love. Clouds and darkness are round about thee ;
but mercy and truth are the habitation of thy throne. Thy judgments
are a great deep ; but thy faithfulness endureth to all generations. We
bow with humble reverence before thy throne. We submit ; we obey,
we confide, we rejoice in thee, our refuge and our strength. We mourn
before thee in sympathy with our brethren in America in this their hour
of bitter bereavement. We mourn with the bereaved family. God sus
tain and comfort them ! O thou Judge of the widow ! bind up the
wounds of that broken heart. We mourn with the bereaved nation.
The Lord be their lawgiver, the Lord be their king and help, and save
them. We bless thee for the maintenance of order at a crisis of so much
peril. We bless thee for the spirit of clemency which has restrained the
natural risings of revenge. Oh ! grant a continuance of the same. We
pray for thy servant, who, in circumstances of so much difficulty, has suc
ceeded to the office of supreme ruler of that great nation. Give him all
needful wisdom and ability ; firmness tempered with kindness, justice al
lied with mercy. Let him rule in the fear of God. May law and
order speedily be re-established ! May the wounds of war be healed !
May there be an immediate and final end to slavery ! May the long-
oppressed negro race rejoice in knowledge and industry, in the rights of
freemen, and the privileges of Christ's church ! May America flourish !
may she be exalted in righteousness, and employ her vast influence only
for the welfare of the world ! Unite our nation with theirs. Draw us
together with the cords of sympathy. Let there be no envy, no ill-will.
Oh ! save us, save the world, from the miseries of war between Great
Britain and America. Scatter thou the people that delight in war. Give
peace in our time, O Lord ! give peace in all time, we beseech thee.
And may these two nations, so blessed of God, be ever found united in
the toils and the triumphs of civilization, freedom, and religion ! God
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God guard and • prosper and bless America, for the sake of- Jesus, the
Prince of peace, our Lord and theirs ! Amen and Amen.
If there is cause for lamentation, there is also cause for
thankfulness. The mercy of God is revealed together with his
judgments. If we weep with those who weep, we will also
rejoice with those who rejoice. Let us, then, give thanks that
no civil commotion has followed this murder ! There has been
no interval of anarchy. The machinery of government has
revolved without a moment's pause. Power has quietly been
transferred to the next in station, without contention, panic,
or delay. While lamenting that the blow at the individual has
taken effect, let us thank God that the blow at the nation has
been averted.
Let us rejoice that there has been no outburst of popular
revenge ! There might have been riotous assaults against the
persons and property of all people supposed to be favorable to
the Southern Confederacy. There might have been wholesale
conflagration and massacre. There might have been a wild
demand for severest measures on the part of the Government
against all implicated in the Rebellion. There has been nothing
of the sort. We have not heard of one act of violence. Justice
is indeed threatened against those implicated in the murder;
but the same policy of clemency and conciliation towards the
conquered which was inaugurated by Lincoln has been adopted
and proclaimed by his successor. When we consider the
provocations which have been given by the Vermont raiders, by
the New-York incendiaries, by the starving to death of thou
sands of federal prisoners, we regard it a mark of the special
controlling grace of God, that, under this additional and most
monstrous outrage, the passions of the nation have been thus
restrained ; and that, after all their victories in battle and all
their successful sieges, they have illustrated the proverb, " He
that is slow to auger is better than the mighty ; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."
We should be thankful for that overruling Providence,
" from seeming evil still educing good," which, from an event
so sad, from a crime so horrible, nevertheless causes some
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In America this crime has fused together all parties in one
common sentiment of indignation, not only against the indi
vidual plotters and perpetrators of it, but against that slave-
spirit, of which the crime was the undoubted and legitimate
development. There have been misguided men, who, though
fighting for an institution that violated all the rights of man
and all the laws of God, were, nevertheless, incapable of
being implicated in such an act as the assassination of, the
late President. It would be most unwarrantable to charge
that crime, without proof, on individuals who proclaim their
abhorrence of it. But it is just and natural to charge it against
that slavery-spirit which the institutions of the South have
nurtured through long years of cruelty and wrong perpetrated
against the negro. That slavery-spirit which bought and sold
human beings like cattle ; which separated husbands and
wives, parents and children ; which flogged naked women ;
which hunted fugitives with bloodhounds, and burnt alive
and killed with unmentionable tortures those slaves who re
sisted their wicked. will, — that slavery-spirit which organized
ruffianism, incendiarism, and murder in Kansas ; which struck
down Senator Sumner in the senate-house, and hailed with
plaudits in every city the would-be assassin ; which plotted the
burning of New York, and commissioned plunder and murder
on Vermont bankers, — that slavery-spirit which would have
shot or hung or burnt to death any of us if caught in the act
of helping one single slave to escape, — that slavery-spirit it
was which struck down the man who had given freedom to
four millions. This, then, will unite all parties in execration of
slavery. If there have been two parties hitherto, one desiring
to abolish slavery, the other only seeking to debar it from
spreading further, there will be only one party now. All
are resolved to extirpate, root and branch, that atrocious
system, that embodiment of all villanies, which has so long
prevailed in the Southern States ; which caused this cruel war,
and which now, in addition to all the lives lost in camp, in
battle, in hospital, and in prison, is answerable for that of
President Lincoln, whose murderer it incited and commis
sioned in his deed of perfidy and revenge. We will therefore
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— that if there was previously any possibility of compromise,
any disposition, for the sake of union and peace, to deal gently
with the slavery question, and not immediately and completely
to let the captive go free, there will be none now. No fear
now that the loyal servant shall be made to submit to the yoke
of the rebel master, and the friend be worse treated than the
foe. No ! the death of Lincoln is the final knell of slavery.
There is also cause of thankfulness as regards the relations
between this country and America. There was ill-feeling in
many minds. America had eagerly looked to the mother-
country for sympathy in her great struggle for existence, — in
her great battle with the most gigantic of wrongs. She
thought she looked in vain. The great mass of the people
sympathized ; but many of those whose opinions America most
esteemed, looked on coldly or critically, or with undisguised
sympathy for the foe. America misunderstood this country in
some matters : in others she had cause for disappointment and
irritation. Nor was there altogether the absence of words
and deeds in America calculated to cause alienation here. But
all this is obliterated in the universal sympathy elicited by this
event. Whatever differences of opinion have existed among
us, arising partly from incorrect information as to facts, partly
from erroneous judgments as to the objects of both parties, all
are one in lamentation for the murdered President, in abhor
rence of the crime, in sympathy with the bereaved. That
which has emphatically been expressed by the Queen, by Par
liament, by municipal assemblies, is felt by every inhabitant of
the land, from the peer to the peasant. This sympathy over
the grave of the President will facilitate the union of ah par
ties in accepting accomplished facts, and wishing well to
America, united and free. And this universal sympathy ex
pressed here will do more than could have been done by years
of explanation to cause Americans to forget what they had
thought indicated injustice and unkindness on our part. They,
as we, are a generous people. They will be melted by the
spontaneous and unequivocal outburst of a universal sympa
thy. They will know that the heart of old England beats true,
though for a season its tohgue'did not utter what they consid
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have blossomed, and produced a harvest of contention, have
been nipped and destroyed. A more cordial union than has
been felt for many years has been consecrated by this martyr
dom. Fears cherished by many that the civil war might be
followed by an international war have been allayed ; and peace
between the two nations has been rendered secure.
And who can estimate adequately the importance of main
taining peace between two such empires ? The recent war
has proved that the resources, the energy, the bravery of Amer
ica, are not inferior to our. own. What, then, must be the
result of war between nations thus prepared and thus resolute !
Each would provoke the other to renewed effort. There would
be no yielding till there was utter exhaustion. What millions
of precious lives might be sacrificed ! how wide-spread would
be the desolation and woe ! How would universal tyranny
exult at the sight of the two great champions of freedom turn
ing away from the common foe to destroy each other, instead
of being allies in the great conflict of truth against error, of
liberty against despotism, of right against wrong ! If, then,
the death of Abraham Lincoln, by evoking British sympathy,
has tended to allay American irritation, and to unite the two
countries in the bonds of peace and good-will ; and if it has
ratified the late President's Emancipation Proclamation, so that
slavery in America is buried in the same grave with him whom
it slew, shall we not adore the goodness which blends with the
judgments of the Lord ?
We may, from this example, learn to trust in God when all
things seem to be against us. To many the murder of Lincoln
seemed at first to be ruin to America and to freedom. And
every Christian can look back to periods when God was work
ing for him special blessings by methods which seemed most
destructive to his welfare. The brightest morning has some
times dawned out of the darkest night. The loveliest paradise
has sometimes been reached by the roughest path. " All things
work together for good to those that love God."
" Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace ;
Behind a frowning Providence
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There are other lessons of an ordinary and obvious kind.
We are, of course, reminded of the uncertainty of life. The
chief danger was over ; the hour of triumph had come. Mr.
Lincoln, on an occasion of national rejoicing, unconscious of
danger, was hurried into eternity. We may be in no danger
from the hand of our fellow-men ; but Death is an assassin,
who has marked out every one of us as his victim. He dogs
our steps. We can never elude his pursuit. He is close be
hind us, watching his opportunity. The blow, though delayed,
is sure some day to be delivered, sure some day to prove
fatal. When that shall be none can know. Is there, then, no
possibility of avoiding the danger ? There is. Let us commit
ourselves into the keeping of the Prince of life. He is stronger
than death. He is a body-guard under whose care all are safe
who put their trust in him. " The angel of the Lord encamp-
eth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them."
" No weapon formed against them shall prosper." For though
death will seem to strike, it will not be as an assassin, but as a
friend to those whose life is hid with Christ in God. To them
he is a friendly messenger to call them home from the conflict
to the triumph, from the pilgrimage to the palace, from earth
to heaven. Jesus says, " He that believeth in me shall never
die ; " for, when the body is summoned to the grave, the soul is
summoned to glory.
Finally we are reminded of our divine Emancipator. Abra
ham Lincoln, on Good Friday, was slain, an unconscious mar
tyr in emancipating four millions of men from the slavery of
the body. Jesus Christ, on Good Friday, was crucified, a vol
untary sacrifice in redeeming the human race from the slavery
of the soul, from the condemnation of hell. He, the Eternal
Word, the Son of God, beheld mankind toiling, groaning, dy
ing. Moved with compassion, he undertook the work of our
emancipation. He took our nature, fulfilled our duties, suf
fered for our sins, died for our salvation. Of his life he said,
" No man taketh it from me ; I lay it down of myself." " We
are redeemed not with corruptible things as silver and gold,
but with the precious blood of Christ." But it was not only
necessary that the price of redemption should be paid ; the
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the Devil. And this, also, our Emancipator does. We are
new creatures in Christ Jesus : old things pass away ; behold, all
things become new in the case of those who believe. And all
are invited thus to believe and be saved ; for " He is the propi- '
tiation for the sins of the whole world."
Are we still servants of sin, slaves to Satan ? What ! when
God himself has published a proclamation of emancipation ?
Let us all accept the priceless boon ! Let us cast away our old
fetters ! Let us exult in the freedom of faith and love. Let
us yield ourselves in grateful homage to Christ, obeying his
laws, rejoicing in his love, and aiding to proclaim throughout
the world, " Liberty to the captive, and the opening of the
prison to them that are bound ! "

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