Lincoln Lecture in Salzburg, Austria

[David Lockmiller]

(12-14-2019 05:08 PM)Amy L. Wrote:  

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If I can repeat myself, I had a bit of an epiphany during the lecture.
Mr. Read repeated, “Lincoln was against Slavery”, “His cause was against Slavery.” But then Lincoln refused the label of Abolitionist, and was fine to let is stay where it was, to supposedly ‘die a slow death.’ I think it would be more appropriate to say ‘Lincoln was against Slave Power.’

Excerpts from President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address:

Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses;for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."