...Massachusetts: E. Putnam, 1897), 302-303. 46. The allusion is to Matthew 18:7: "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe unto that man by whom the offense cometh!" CHAPTER THREE 1. Samuel Foster Haven (1806-1881), librarian...

...ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayer of both...answered fully. The almighty has His own purposes. Woes unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man...

...same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. . . . The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has...Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence...

...let us judge not that we be not judged. There was a smattering of applause in the crowd. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has...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...

...strange that any man should ask a just God's assistance in judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has...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...

...bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has...Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence...

...invoked when he spoke of slavery is just as true of these other evils: "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." The question we face today is not whether to banish religion from public life, America never has done...

...is the rendering of the Civil War as an exemplification of Matthew 18.7: '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!' Lincoln identifies slavery as the 'offense' that, 'having continued through His appointed time, [God]...

...is the rendering of the Civil War as an exemplification of Matthew 18:7: "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!" Lincoln identifies slavery as the "offense" that, "having continued through His appointed time, [God]...

...Each [side] looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has...answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. ... If we are to suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of...