With the earnest voice there was the fascination of a face alight with a noble beauty, eyes glowing as with lambent flame.
A second time he read the appealing words, then paused and allowed his eyes to wander quietly over the congregation.

They represented to him in that hour the manhood and womanhood of his country.

Sincerely, with no attempt at rhetoric and with no employment of any of its tricks, he began his sermon.
"This war," he said, "is a conflict of ideals eternally opposed.

Our ambitious and ruthless enemy has made the issue and has determined the method of settlement.

It is a war of souls, but the method of settlement is not that of reason but that of force--a force that finds expression through your bodies.