A Sermon: Preached Before the United Congregations of Wyoming, N. Y. on the Death of President Lincoln

by Charles Ray

Excerpt from A Sermon: Preached Before the United Congregations of Wyoming, N. Y. On the Death of President Lincoln

In Philadelphia, Mr. Lincoln said, in Independence Hall, I can say ln return, sir, that all the political sentiments I enter tain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated and were given to the world from this Hall. I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declara tion of Independence. I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Con federacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of separation of the Colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, which gave liberty not alone to people of this country, but I hope to the world, for all future time.

27 pages, Paperback

First published February 22, 2012

About the author

Charles Ray authored a number of books about Spurgeon, including The Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1903), Mrs C. H. Spurgeon (1903) and A Marvellous Minstry: The Story of C. H. Spurgeon s Sermons 1855-1905 (1905). His biography of Mrs Spurgeon is included, with her collection of morning devotions A Carillon of Bells , in the Trust s publication Susannah Spurgeon: Free Grace and Dying Love.