The Greatest Gifts of the Most High God

Peace has been preserved with all nations. Order has been maintained. The laws have been respected and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theatre of military conflict. While that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plouh the shuttle or the ship. No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high god, who, dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.