Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-12
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
BATTLES ABOVE THE CLOUDS.

An old painter, depicting famous battlefield, has touched the scene with his imagination by painting an in numerable host of angels battling in the air above the clashing armies. While men fought on earth invisible powers of the spiritual world fought in sympathy with them. Celestial forces greater than the combatants could know were enlisted in the struggle.
 Is not the suggestion borne in upon us strongly as we study many of the crucial engagements of history :? When it has seemed as though the progress of civilization were to be ar rested some power greater than man has entered the fight and ordained it's outcome. It is as though the resources of the universe had been rallied to sustain the right. We feel as the prophecies Deborah felt when, after the defeat of the heather host, she eXulted. The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
 At o'clock on the first day at Waterloo, Wellington felt himself beaten. The next day Butcher ar rived instead of Grouchy and the tide turned against the French. Victor Hugo, the Frenchman, writes of Ma poleon's defeat Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that bat tie? We answer no. Why? Be- cause of Wellington? Because of Butcher? No. Because of God. It was time that this vast man should fall Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been decided on. He embarrassed God"
 After the first day at Gettysburg it looked as if the morrow might see a repetition of earlier reVerSeS for the North with the army in full retreat to defend Washington. But it was not to be so. Although neither Lee nor Meade had intended to fight just where they did the course of events had brought the Union forces at the crucial hour to the curving slopes of Cemetery ridge. an almost lmpreg-c nable position. Against it waves of most furious assault hurled them selves only to be hurled back as ocean surges from Gibraltar.
 Who dares say that the choice of position those July days was the re- men alone were fighting the decisive battle? Have not both North and South come to see in it the hand of the Almighty. the plan of Him who ordained the American people to be one people from sea to sea. from the lakes to the gulf, with liberty and justice for all?
 Any conflict waged on our planet between good and evil belongs to God before it belongs to man. The power not ourselves that makes for righteousness" is more interested in the success of the good cause than we can be. The constitution of this moral universe is against evil and oppres- sion and injustice. The stars in their courses eternally fight against Sisera.
 The thought girds one with strength for moral endeaver. He who strikes with a hammer finds all the force of yraVitatioO adding power to his blow And he who combats any of the gigantic evils under the sun has the support of infinite and invincible allies Let the fact nerve the arm and cheer the spirit of each halting reforner to the end of time, May it encourage us all to believe in that tone far-off divine event toward which the whole creation moves"
 Right is right since God Is God
 And right the day must win
 Te deubt would be disioyaity,
 Te faltef would be sin,
 THE PARSoN.