Legislative Honors to the Memory of President Lincoln; Message of Gov. Fenton to the Legislature, Communicating the Death of President Lincoln Obsequi (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... By unanimous consent the rule was suspended, and the resolution unanimously adopted; whereupon, Mr. Speaker declared the House adjourned. Wednesday, April 19,1865. REV. DR. HALLEY'S PRAYER. Almighty God, Thine is the power, the kingdom, the excellency; Thy works are perfect, and Thy ways are judgment. Heaven is Thy throne and the earth is Thy footstool; all nature is Thy temple and all space Thine abode. Deeply, O God impress our minds with that great National bereavement that has spread such profound gloom over this people. We rejoice that there is nothing accidental or contingent in Thy procedure. How miserable should we be if we lived in a world which no Divine Wisdom presides to touch its springs and control its movement But Thy word sweeps away the nonentity of chance, and teaches us that Thou reignest--that Thy providence embraces the vast and the minute, the remote and the near, regulates every law and guides every operation of nature--that the leaves of every flower are opened by Thee, that the particles of every dew-drop are collected by Thee, that every volcano is convulsed and every planet is wheeled by Thee--that every action and volition of Thy intelligent creatures, whether so great as to affect the welfare of nations, or so minute as to flutter only for a moment in our atmosphere, is under the care of that Being for whose inspection nothing is too minute, and for whose power nothing is too vast. Almighty Father, how consolatory thus to believe, under the bereavements of life, that life is not a scene of trembling accidents, and that we do not wander along its paths with no hand to guide, no heart to sympathize and no voice to soothe us. "We will therefore lift up our eyes to the hills from whence cometh our help; our safety cometh from th...