The Martyred President: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., by the Pastor, Rev. Chas. S. Robinson on the morning of April 16th, 1865
New York: John F. Trow, 1865. 30p. Stitched spine. President Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday, April 15th, 1865. This sermon was preached by Rev. Charles S. Robinson on the morning of April 16th. William Barton in the American Pulpit on the Death of Lincoln writes that Pastors around the country had their Easter Sermon ready, but upon receiving the news of President Lincoln's assassination realized that they had to prepare a new sermon. " It happened in a hundred, nay a thousand, perhaps ten thousand parsonages and in cities and villages, all over the United States. In some such fashion as this, the ministers of the whole country sat down on Saturday afternoon or night to prepare new sermons in place of those which they had already completed in preparation for an Easter of wholly different character. Some of these ministers participated in mass meetings on Saturday night, which used some of their material and shortened their time of preparation. On Sunday morning they stood, all of them, before congregations that completely filled their churches, and they spoke such words as God gave to them in that hour". A fresh clean copy with a vertical crease mark as a result of having been folded at some point. Item #10219
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