Excerpt from The Curtained Throne: A Sermon, Suggested by the Death of President Lincoln, Preached in the Presbyterian Church of Bedford, Pa;, April 23, 1865, and Repeated April 30, 1865 WE shall not detain you with an extended argu ment to prove the doctrine of a Divine Providence. It is a fact of natural and revealed religion. It would be as rational to deny the existence of God as to controvert His Providence. The power which created is alone sufficient to uphold all things. The perfections Of God, the nature of man, the order Of the universe_ - all add their testimony to the truth so frequently and so explicitly stated in the Bible, that God sits upon the throne of universal do minion. 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.