Excerpt from A Sermon on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, on Sunday Morning, April 23, 1865 Heaven.' N o distinction was ever clearer. Ever diverging more and more, these two develop ments have gone on since the foundation of the Republic, until at last the distinction has culmi' nated. The one side has exhausted its venom in this crowning atrocity, and placed it in such startling relief against the virtues of the Victim and the great order-loving, liberty-loving, rebel lion hating, humanity-cherishing sentiment of the Nation, as henceforth to stamp the act and that of which it was the product with a character which no future historian will dare to palliate, and to insure to them a detestation the bitterness of which shall be intensified with every succeed ing generation. God has forestalled the judg ment of history, and on this act, at least, its decision shall be unanimous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.