Therefore the appeal of the Apostle Paul, this old-world hero, to the men of his time reaches down to us in this day, and at this crisis of the world's history.

Offer your bodies--these living bodies--these sacred bodies--offer them in sacrifice to God." There was little discussion of the causes of the war.

What need?
They knew that this war was neither of their desiring nor of their making.
There was no attempt to incite hatred or revenge.

There was little reference to the horrors of war, to its griefs, its dreadful agonies, its irreparable losses.
From the first word he lifted his audience to the high plane of sacrament and sacrifice.

They were called upon to offer upon the altar of the world's freedom all that they held dear in life--yea, life itself! It was the ancient sacrifice that the noblest of the race had always been called upon to make.