Discourse on the National Crisis

on that field, their dear blood may be poured out a sacrifice to principle. We know not who among us will be thus touched most closely by insatiate war. Remembering the solemnity of this issue and its importance to our posterity, remembering that for their sakes God has called us to this struggle, we must as Christians be willing to suffer, and take the cup that God gives, as did He in Gethsemane, with the words on his lips : “THY WILL, NOT MINE, BE DONE.''

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