Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1R. Leighton, Jr., 1861 |
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... gallows , black and hideous , the embodiment of death , the last argument a " Christian " State offers to the poor wretches it trained up to be criminals , stands there , a sign of our infamy , and while it lifts its horrid arm to crush ...
... gallows , black and hideous , the embodiment of death , the last argument a " Christian " State offers to the poor wretches it trained up to be criminals , stands there , a sign of our infamy , and while it lifts its horrid arm to crush ...
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... gallows with unusual shame , to teach us all that such is war , and such the results of every " fa- mous victory , " such the imperishable honors that it brings , and how the war - makers love the men they rule ! O Christian America ! O ...
... gallows with unusual shame , to teach us all that such is war , and such the results of every " fa- mous victory , " such the imperishable honors that it brings , and how the war - makers love the men they rule ! O Christian America ! O ...
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... gallows . Suppose the warriors should ask , " Why , what is that ? " What would you say ? Why , this : " These men , they broke the law of God , by violence , by fire and blood , and we shall hang them for the public good , and ...
... gallows . Suppose the warriors should ask , " Why , what is that ? " What would you say ? Why , this : " These men , they broke the law of God , by violence , by fire and blood , and we shall hang them for the public good , and ...
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... gallows will not still that voice , nor silence the answer . I wonder at the fewness of crimes , not their multitude . I must say that , if goodness and piety did not bear a greater proportion to the whole 200 A SERMON OF THE.
... gallows will not still that voice , nor silence the answer . I wonder at the fewness of crimes , not their multitude . I must say that , if goodness and piety did not bear a greater proportion to the whole 200 A SERMON OF THE.
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... gallows stands in the back - ground of society , overlooking it all ; where it should be the blessed gospel of the living God . What we want to remove the cause of all this is the application of Christianity to social life . Noth- ing ...
... gallows stands in the back - ground of society , overlooking it all ; where it should be the blessed gospel of the living God . What we want to remove the cause of all this is the application of Christianity to social life . Noth- ing ...
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