At a prayer meeting held at Mr. Lincoln's office in the White House, the president prays "If I had had my way, this war would never have been commenced, but we find it still continues: and we must believe that He permits it for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us." The meeting was at the suggestion of Eliza Gurney, whose husband was an English Quaker.
Previously he had said that both parties of the war claim that they were doing the will of God. Mr. said "Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time."
President Lincoln had always believed that he was "an instrument of Providence."
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