Booklet entitled "A Discourse prepared for the National Fast Day, June 1st, 1865, on account of the Murder of our late President, and preached at St. Thomas' Church, Homestead, Baltimore County, Md., by Ethan Allen, Record," twelve pages, 4.5 x 7.5, published in Baltimore in 1865 by Wm. K. Boyle. Rev. Allen's discourse is filled with biblical references and allusions, and concludes, in part: "In bringing this subject forward now, it is not, to institute any personal comparison, between the character of Jesus of Nazareth, and that of any earthly ruler whomsoever—much less that of the late President of the United States—whose assassination called the nation to fasting and mourning, on this first day of June—God forbid that we should do this. But it is brought forward, because a great principle of God's government of the world, is involved, which we should not overlook—the one, being constituted the chief ruler of the Jews—the other the chief magistrate of a nation. His murder therefore, is not to be looked at as that of a private, individual man—but as the murder of an official head of the people of the land—and so looked at, it is a crime which in no other case, can be paralleled—it is so regarded by the North and the South, and the governments of Europe. That in our case, it was called forth by our national sins—no one recognizing the Government of the Judge of all the earth, will for one moment deny. These sins have brought this blood upon our land." Simply bound with string and missing its wrappers. In fine condition.
