prove a solution.

"Failing in this effort, the resolution was formed that the only
other method lay in submitting the matter in a solemn referendum
to the conscience of America. In that great judgment we now are.
Men are but instrumentalities of the Divine Will, worked out, we
pray, in the nations. Few things are of smaller importance than
the temporal fortunes of men; no things of greater importance
than the destiny of mankind. Willingly would we undergo crushing
defeat to save the principle for which we strive, guiltily would
we assume power won by appeal to baser motives and selfish
fears.

"There is in this year, for the causes here outlined, a
militancy as of the Crusaders, marching over mountains and
deserts to wrest the Holy Places from unworthy hands. There is a
sacred fire in the countenances of those who speak the message,
there is a joy in proclaiming the tidings, there is a zeal in
spreading the word. We are preachers this year of national
righteousness, of honor, of faith and of high purpose.

"We scorn to think of our mission in ordinary terms. We disdain
to look upon the early days of November as a test of rival
organizations in their power to muster votes. We have no mind to
compete in lavish outlay, we have no purpose to resort to
sinister methods of electrical appeal. If we are to be chosen,
it is to be because we have won the conscience of the nation,
and God helping us, we will appeal to nothing else.

"We turn from the external duties of the country to its