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"the harder the sacrifice, the more glorious the triumph." --Franklin Roosevelt, fireside chat

President Wood Wilson: "In 1913, speaking in Trenton, he stated, 'I am sorry for the men who do not read the Bible everyday....It is one of the most singular books in the world, for every time you open it some old text that you have read before a score if times suddenly beams with a new meaning.'"

We know it would not have befallen us without His permission who overruleth all things. We must do our duty as best we can and believe that the inscrutable Providence who permitted our present situation may be preparing us for a more useful and higher destiny, which without this lesson we might neither have retained or appreciated. -Mary Lee, wife of Confederate Gen. Lee, speaking of the defeat of the South