1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. All Joy is Darkened. A Sermon on the President's Assassination. Jonathan Edwards Bickford Smith

Bickford Smith

frequently working in Macao and Canton

He holds an umbrella in one hand and book in the other

some worm tracings on front cover

1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. All Joy is Darkened. A Sermon on the President's Assassination. Jonathan Edwards Bickford SmithAll joy is darkened; the mirth of the land is gone. Isaiah 24. 11 "A terrible thing has come upon the land! An awful darkness suddenly shrouded it. The people stand chilled in horror! Pierced, to the life, by unutterable grief. Mourning is everwhere in the streets in the air. I hear it in the bell toll, see it on the mute lip of these sable drapings of woe. The light of the blessed morning seems charged with its burden. Not only is it in the Capitol,