.The Lord will fight for you and you
:9hall stand still nnd see your enemies
slain.”
It must have been the memory of this
that fired the soul of Patrick Henry, on
that March day in 1775, in the Revolu
tionary convention in Virginia, when he
Said, “An appeal to arms and to.the God
of Hosts, is all that is le^t us Three
million of people, armed in. the only
cause of liberty, and in such a country
as that which we possess, are Invincible
to any force which our enemies can
send against us. Besides, sir. we shall
not fight our battles alone. There is a
just God who presides over the destiny
of nations, and who will raise up friends
to fight our battles for us.”
Same Great Ally
It was the same Ally who stood with
the rustic bowmen of Harold on the
field of Hastings and fought with them
their battles to save Saxon England
from the conquering Normans; He was
the same who helped Edward at Crecy
to brake the might of France; He was
the same who stood with the belted
barons of Runnymede to wring from
the grudging hand of John the Magna
Charts ; He is the same who stood with
the embattled farmers of Lexington and
Bunker Hill when they marked in the
red snows the foot prints for liberty to
follow in; He is the same who deter
mined the issue when the gray-clad men
of Pickett and Wheeler and Stonewall
Jackson and Lee—when .the blue-clad
men with Hooker fought above the
clouds of lookout mountain, or with
Grant in the wilderness: when victors
and vanquished were both Americans.
