Excerpt from A Discourse Occasioned by the Assassination of President Lincoln: Delivered in Westminster Church, Buffalo, Sunday Evening, May 7th 1865

No other fact has been more conspicuous upon the face of society among us, during the progress of the war that is now closing, than the constantly spreading and deepening sentiment of our national dependence on the allotments of the Divine Hand. We have learned, with all our fellow-countrymen, during the last four years, as we never before understood it, the uncertainty of human calculations, and the double blindness of human self-sufficiency, conceit and independence.

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