Excerpt from A Discourse on the Death of President Abraham Lincoln, Delivered in the Baptist Church in Smithfield, Fayette County, Pa., June 1st, 1865 NO Object of human vision is so brilliant as the sun. Its light is intense and its glory dazzling to the natural eye. But intervening clouds sometimes dim its lustre and enshroud its glory. So God, when he would clothe his providences with obscurity, robes himself With clouds and darkness. He flies upon the wings of the wind, and maketh his pavillion round about him, dark waters and thick clouds of the Skies. The mysterious clouds within whose veil di vine providences are evolved, though impenetrable to reason's eye, are pierced by the eye of Christian faith and their office discovered, Which is to soften the brilliancy of the Everlasting Throne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.