...March 1 865, a month before he was assassinated. Speaking of the two sides in the Civil War, he says: Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God,...aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's...

...struggle for people of faith on both sides to discern the failure of God to listen to their own prayers: Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's...

...worship. Writing after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln articulated such divisions among the rival camps: 'Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces;...

...to a nation in crisis. Speaking of the North and the South and the issue of slavery, Lincoln said, Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's...

...ministers in 1863 — the fact that both northern and southern combatants believed God to be on their side: Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's...

...address is downright evangelical, profoundly spiritual, and yet prophetic: "Both jsides in the conflictj read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and...aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's...

...Address, all the more remarkable for being uttered after almost four years of civil war: "Both [sides] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and...aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's...

...(the Almighty, Lord), on eight occasions. He began with an irony. Both sides in the conflict, he said, "read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and...His aid against the other." "It may seem strange," he continued, "that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from...

...the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. . . . Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other." Lincoln then suggested that God gave America — both North and South — the war as punishment for...

...religious self-righteousness, Abraham Lincoln long ago noted that during the Civil War, "Both [sides] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other." Lincoln, a man of immense moral character and vision, urged his fellow countrymen, us, both to act...