...separated the two sections, they possessed a common religious bond in the travail they both were suffering. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. . . . The prayers of both could not be answered. . . . The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto...

...the Bible. In his second inaugural address on March A, 1865, Abraham Lincoln noted that both sides "read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other." Eliza's diary is a profound demonstration of why the secession movement in the South, which was initiated...

..."We won, and we want to send our enemies straight to hell." Lincoln reminded people that both sides "read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. . . .The prayers of both could not be answered." He had a wonderful way of giving his adversaries their...

...the obvious if God were to "pick sides" and show favor to one side over another. He said, "Both sides read the same Bible and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other." In fact, in Lincoln's second inaugural address, given in the month of March 1 865, he pointed out his...

...entering upon this great office l must humbly invoke the God of our fathers..." Abraham Lincoln, 1 6th, "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid..." Andrew Johnson, 17th, "grief on earth which can only be assuaged by communion with the Father in heaven..."...

...later, a month before the end of the War, in his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln publicly admitted: Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. . . . Both [North and South] read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid...

...the war galloping away from the comparatively limited Enlightenment parameters of cause and effect. "Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained," Lincoln continued. "Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding."...

...whole of American society when he reviewed the course of the Civil War and the fate of slavery in 1865: 'Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude,...easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.'4 Ignorance of the problems that would arise helps to explain the launching of massive...

...his speech was printed 93 on, "all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. . . . "Neither party expected for the war the magnitude,...or even before, the conflict itself should cease. . . . Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other."...

...after that, his own assassination—Abraham Lincoln gave public testimony to the desolation of the war: Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or...Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery) might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease.. .. If we shall suppose...