{"id":15849,"date":"2016-08-18T13:34:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/butlerbenjamin-franklin\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:34:40","slug":"butlerbenjamin-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/butlerbenjamin-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"BUTLER,\nBENJAMIN FRANKLIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (December 14, 1795\u2013November 8, 1858), was an American politician and Union General during the Civil War. He served as the U.S. Attorney General, 1833\u201338, under President Andrew Jackson; the U.S. Secretary of War, 1836\u201337; and U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1838\u201348. In addition to serving in the New York State Legislature, Benjamin Franklin Butler was the head of the electoral College of New York in 1845. In an address delivered in 1834 at Alexandria, D.C., Benjamin Franklin Butler stated:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>He is truly happy, whatever may be his temporal condition, who can call God his Father in the full assurance of faith and hope. And amid all his trials, conflicts, and doubts, the feeblest Christian is still comparatively happy; because cheered by the hope \u2026 that the hour is coming when he shall be delivered from \u201cthis body of sin and death\u201d and in the vision of his Redeemer \u2026 approximate to the \u2026 felicity of angels. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Not only does the Bible inculcate, with sanctions of the highest import, a system of the purest morality, but in the person and character of our Blessed Saviour it exhibits a tangible illustration of that system. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>In Him we have set before us\u2014what, till the publication of the Gospel, the world had never seen\u2014a model of feeling and action, adapted to all times, places, and circumstances; and combining so much of wisdom, benevolence, and holiness, that none can fathom its sublimity; and yet, presented in a form so simple, that even a child may be made to understand and taught to love it.&#65279;2104&#65279;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(December 14, 1795\u2013November 8, 1858), was an American politician and Union General during the Civil War. He served as the U.S. Attorney General, 1833\u201338, under President Andrew Jackson; the U.S. Secretary of War, 1836\u201337; and U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1838\u201348. In addition to serving in the New York State Legislature, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/butlerbenjamin-franklin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BUTLER,<br \/>\nBENJAMIN FRANKLIN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}