Three score and four years ago, our fathers and mothers brought forth a new birth in an old Promised Land, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the truth that we are all but sojourners here where the meek will inherit the earth, only when the sword is hammered into the ploughshare.
Now we are engaged in another peace, where only wars have been the result of that peace. This Promised Land is a great battlefield where empire smashed against empire, to prove that only the Word of God will remain.
We can not dedicate this nation, nor consecrate this ground, nor hallow it, for God is the One Who dedicated this land, this ground and hallowed it, from the first step of Adam, to the offering of Abraham, to the calling of Moses to the ultimate Sacrifice of the Christ, this is a land set apart for Peace, but has been warred over by those who would steal it.
The world will little note whatever is promised over this land, for it is only by men's actions and those actions in protecting this ground, not in trust, but in verification of strength, that all those who are buried in this land, have not died in vain in defending the ultimate Truth, that there is no government of man which will bring peace, for peace, genuine peace comes only from the heart, and that heart only is at peace living a life according to that Sacred Word, which was given to humankind in this land.
This land is about the governance of the heart, for that is where all good government in this evil world arises from. Governance of God, for the people, by the people and of the people, until Shiloh returns with the most perfect union.
So help us God.
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