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The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.

Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.