Excerpt from Josiah and Lincoln, the Great Reformers: A Tribute to the Worth and Work of Our Martyr-President, Delivered in the Reformed Dutch Church, Easton, Pa;, On Fast Day, June 1, 1865 The exercises for which we meet areexpressive of an appreciation of true worth and great services - they also signify an acknowledgement of God and our gratitude to him for a great gift - these public gatherings at the grave of the dead on which the grass in its new growth is not yet green pledge us not only to the affectionate memory of our martyr but to the imitation of his character and the perpetuation of his principles - we mean also by our solemn assembling, to declare to the Sovereign Ruler that we are humbled under his rebukes, and that we repent of the sins which have brought his heavy hand upon us and stained our glory and reduced our pride. These I take to be the lessons of the occasion. Little need be said to elaborate or enforce these lessons after all that you have heard from this pulpit, and all the ser mons you have read, with which, for weeks, the press has teemed. Let us suspend these lessons and recur to the character and public work of him at whose death all Judah and Jerusalem mourned. If you see 'a parallelism be tween King Josiah and President Lin coln, you cannot say the preacher makes it. If it exists, God made it. It is ours to read it, mark it, learn it, and inwardly digest it. 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.