Excerpt from The President's Death, and the Lessons It Teaches: A Sermon Preached in the Baptist Chapel, Brantford, C. W., On the Evening of Sabbath, April 23rd, 1865 It is almost unnecessary to state that these words have not been chosen as a text containing truth to be illustrated and enforced, but rather as a motto which strikingly depicts the and end of him, the lessons of whose loss we are this night met to learn. A trail has gone throughout the length and breadth of this northern continent; and tidings of the great sorrow will soon be ashed, as on lightning wing through every corner of the civilized world. Thousands of homes'in the neighboring republic have been suddenly darkened: it is as ifonc of their own household lights had been extinguished by the chill touch of death. In our own province, an electric touch of sympathy, that shows all the world to be akin, has awakened' a uni versal grief. As with blanched check and hated breath, men read the early telegrams of President Lincoln's assassination on that and Saturday morning, it seemed to many like some terrible dream, from which the sleeper would give worlds to awake, and find that it was all unreal. And when at length the mind took in the dread reality, the sickened heart cried out, whereunto shall all this tend How long, 0 Lord, how long In reply there came to the ear of faith this voice of inspiration, Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will he exalted in the earth.

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