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.
Abraham Lincoln
The Will of God Prevails
Topic: Justice, Vision, & Leadership
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either part…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.
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Wikipedia
Born: February 12, 1809, Hodgenville, KY
Height: 6′ 4″
Assassinated: April 15, 1865, Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
Meditation on the Divine Will
Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy P. Basler, University Press Rutgers, 1955, [President Abraham Lincoln, Meditation on the Divine Will, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1862].
Abraham Lincoln
Theme: A Vision of America
John Hay, Abraham Lincoln’s Meditation on the Divine Will
This fragment was found and preserved by John Hay, one of President Lincoln’s White House secretaries, who said it was “not written to be seen of men.” Some of the thoughts expressed here, written after discouraging days of personal sorrow and military defeats, also appear in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address of 1865. Hay said that in this writing:
Russell Kirk, Abraham Lincoln’s Respect for Providential Order
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