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The Civil War ended 155 years ago next month. World War II ended 75 years ago this fall.

In the midst of both horrific conflicts, a spiritual war was being waged as well. During the Civil War,

revival services were common on both sides. Nightly prayer meetings

were held in many regiments. Tent meetings were filled to overflowing. A Confederate

chaplain noted that, scores of men are converted immediately after great battles.

A Pennsylvania soldier wrote, The fact that I must die became to me living and real.

A Wall Street Journal article notes that after World War II, Americans chastened by the horrors

of war, turned to faith in search of truth and meaning.

In the late 1940s, Gallup survey showed more than three-quarters of Americans were members of a house of worship,

compared with about half today.

Congress added the words, under God, to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954.

Some would later call this a third Great Awakening.

We are fighting a war today that is just as real as those deadly conflicts.

At a news briefing yesterday, President Trump stated that the peak in death rate in the pandemic is likely to hit in two weeks,

and announced that the federal government is extending its social distancing guidelines through

April 30th.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's foremost infectious disease expert, said yesterday that

the U.S. could experience millions of cases of COVID-19 and between 100,000 and 200,000

deaths in the U.S., based on what we are seeing now.

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