270 THE GEOUNDSWELL, 



and persistently to purify and lift up ourselves, State and Nation 

 being ever in mind. Let us remember that if we would triumph 

 in the unequal conflict upon which we now enter, we must fear God, 

 obey our laws, maintain our honors, not forgetting that a good 

 matron, as well as a good husbandman, has taken solemn obligations 

 and assumed grave responsibilities. And now may the Great Master 

 of the universe bless us in our labor, and sustain and abide with us, 

 both here and when our work here is finished. 



