Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-05-02
The Drum Ecclcsiastic.

The lamcntci death Of President LINCOLN Ia:
been the occasion Of much comment in the pul
pit and out Of il A good deal has been sale
both wise and proper. and much that was unwis'
and improper. Preachers like all other PEG
pie. mixed in character. in gins. judgment. anC
the christian grsces. When they do utter non
sense, however. the outside world has the sam,
right to notice that nonsence that it has to inves
tigate any other species of error. and to hold i
up to the correction Of the public sense OF th,
country. One Of the most remarkable sermons
which the melancholy occasion has drawn forti
vas delivered in the Second Presbyterian church
Of Cincinnati on Sunday evening, the 23d o.
April. by the Rev. Mr.. l. P. THOMPSON. 1t i.
reported in The Commercial. of that city. We
make few extracts. After paying jus; tribute
to the personal and political character of Mr.
LINCOLN. the preacher said
Who would wonder that we should love and
admire him. We had feltit due him that he
should be garlanded in the FINAL reoicings: but
as Moses permitted only 10 see the land. 20
with our great and glorious leader lie knew
that his country vac delivered. and on the verv
day that be died. his eyes rested upon the certified
prospect of our nstion being restored to is integ
rity. IL in TACT in the very midst of our re-
loicings that he died. We shrank from ascrbiug
TO the Divine will any agency in the crime Of bis
death But God used criH7e 10 further His otcn
purposes. The conspiracy which had eliminated
in the pistol shot Was hstehed and ripened in the
dark: but God had marked the first Inception Of
the plot and hit He not have avertcd the
blow. bgf hGt IL icss 10 shoe His orn rise gur-
pose
II IL. ~ n.
hours of that dreadful night-up TO the very mo-
ment that be did the deed was not God locking
at him. perfectly conscious Of his intentiony And
could not God have interviewed some shield TO
that life. had lie NOT chosen that u should be
taken Yes. re should attribute the death Of Mr.
LiReOlR 10 tAe DiriRe agency, yes not relieve the
guilty of the crime. Ii vas full OF meaning, and
tie Interpretation OF j; became tie righttul duty
OF that solemn hour
but God bad discovered in Mr. Lincoln,
disposition 10 d,ol lsnienly rita traitors in ORDER
90 induce them to return 10 their duty-,o ten
porize with them, without infictinc upon them
that punishment. which lie had ordained IS the
reward OF their crime. Thus reasoning. be ar
gacd that God had used him - an ins,rurn,nt
70 carry out the war. he had found him unff 10
deal ruth The rork Of reconstruction and plaeino
Arm aside had brought forth another Instrument
IN the person of the present president. 90 use
-
would not have served 20 put the seal sf cOndem-
nation upon the rebels. and public justice would
have been unappeasei and Law dsk0nored
And If ever laws should be executed, he con
unued. Il should be on these traitors, whose guilt
- worse than that Of thousand murder
ers Ii sllowed TO 80 Tree, IheIr example would
be snare 10 all nations in al times. IL We we-e
TO ask Shy his death came in that form az lr0uid
seem tecsrse Ne road more fully recognize in IL
he hand Of Cod providence than if the president
had died natural death IN has bed
When We read tina, sermon. - reported. the
paper was laid aside for future examination, with
the hope that some correction Of is sentiments
would appear in the subsequent publication Of
the papers Of that city. But many DAYS have
elapsed. and the language Is allowed To slaad "a
hrst printed Il is assumed. therefore. TIA, Mr.
THOMPSON vas rightly reported ia The csmuer.
cisl
Wehase seldom read anything more a,rociou.
sentiment more olzsphenou- in language
he assumes:
]. That God used the crinlna! (Doors) TO
further His own purposes. and that The death