No man liveth unto himself.

His home, his state, his country is in a degree blessed or cursed for his sake.

Dear Blair, you cannot be a true patriot without God's grace to help you rule your heart, guard your lips, and purify your life.

May you this day begin, for your own sake as well as for that of your country, to serve the God of our fathers.

He has mercifully spared you the bitter self-reproach to which you might have been doomed.