This is Jockel podcast number 356 with echo Charles and me jockel willing good evening echo good evening

Gettysburg was a great battle

It's action. It's tension. It's hazards. It's consequences

In it were involved questions of gravest import the decision of which makes history

Interest social political moral personal of gravest import for ourselves for others for our country for man everywhere

For the present time and for the future for which also we hold a trust

The pressing question before us was whether we had a country

Whether we were a people or only a populace

Whether we were a mere chance partnership only holding only by human will or a nation

constituted in the purpose and calling of divine providence bound together for the noblest ends of living by ties of mutual interest and honor

bonds both of love and law

All the great ruling sentiments which have their vital source in this idea patriotism loyalty self devotion for the sake of others

Nay what we consider the supreme of earthly blessings largest scope for individual life endowments powers genius character

These were the prize for which we wrestled in that terrible arena

More than this

involved here too

Were the widest human interests

We fought for the worth of manhood for law and liberty

Which mean freedom for every man to make the most of himself with goodwill of all others

without oppression or depression

We had a deep inward vision of this at the time though unspoken and perhaps unclear

But no man even now can realize in thought or recognize in fact all the reach of good coming forth out of that struggle and that victory for the country and

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