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[213] And inspired by such thoughts, may not here to-day the living blue and gray, or wherever hereafter assembled, in heart and voice unite in the anthem of ‘Glory to God! on earth peace, good will,’ which, swelling in one grand diapason of harmony, may rise above earth and find its echoes amid the stars and planets, thence caught up higher by angel voices and wafted across the ‘sea of glass,’ sink in sweet, declining cadence before the ‘throne of God.’ To you, sirs, I deliver this register. I know I commit it to worthy hands.
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