Gettysburg Cemetery Prayer, 1863, Rev. Thomas Stockton, Hear and Read the Words Heard By Lincoln

Listen to and read the Gettysburg Cemetery Prayer, delivered by Rev. Dr. Thomas Stockton, U.S. House Chaplain, at the consecration of the national cemetery at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. This prayer preceded Edward Everett’s Oration and Abraham Lincoln’s Address.
Narrator: Timelessreader1
Photographer: Timelessreader1
Text: The text of this 1863 prayer is in the Public Domain.

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AMEN LORD HAVE MERCY

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a fervent prayer that was recited to glorify , to consecrate , to give long to come forbearance for the heroic men , and how they gave their lives on this hallowed ground , in order to save the sacredness of the union end what Abraham Lincoln said.Slavery is a social evil , and ought to be eliminated.So , Gettysburg is a testimony , and monument to a history of the US , which will live to be told , debated , and explained by the next generations to come.