“l WAS THERE - were YOU there?"

We are told that many years ago, after a hard fought battle, wherein the valor and heroism of the soldiers were made apparent, the victorious commander presented his soldiers with a medal bearing the name of the battle, and the simple words, “I was there.” The soldiers received and prized these medals far more than though they had been of the finest gold studded with priceless jewels. So, my countrymen, we are in the midst of the greatest battle of the ages, not of swords, but of ideas and principles. Shall this Republic be Christian or infidel? Shall this people be a temperate and chaste people, or shall it become drunken and licentious? Shall the flag wave o’er the triumphant millions in the years to come as an emblem of union and the

Cross of Calvary? Only if those millions remember the cost to be borne by a free people in the defense of their liberty.