By Jeremy McMullen
A Nation at a Crossroads: Gettysburg for Yesterday and Today
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A NATION AT A CROSSROADS: GETTYSBURG FOR YESTERDAY AND TODAY
CHAPTER ONE: FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO
"The president was led to come to share, and he would do so upon sacred ground. From this sacred, pivotal ground, Lincoln issued the call to the nation to 'never forget.' But 'never forget' what? It's best to find out, for the 'chains are forged' otherwise. 'Their clanking may be heard on the plains' of eternity."
CHAPTER TWO: A GREAT CIVIL WAR
"One side embraced the natural ideal of God having created all men equal. Meanwhile, the other side saw it as natural that God created one race, one culture, to be more sophisticated, superior to others, and therefore more capable in civilized behaviors and abilities. One side saw slavery as an evil that had to go away, while the other saw it as a necessary evil that had to stay for the good of the undisciplined, unsophisticated."
CHAPTER THREE: A GREAT BATTLEFIELD
"Even though he would have his hand on, and would even state his belief in the value of Gettysburg, Lee couldn't help but focus beyond, upon the state's capital of Harrisburg. Nonetheless, it had become clear a confrontation on the first of July was blowing up into something bigger. He had recognized its strength, its value. This crossroads town, that had never been the objective of the Confederate invasion of the North, would now become the all-important key to the larger plans of their independence."
CHAPTER FOUR: WE CAN NOT HALLOW--THIS GROUND
"The battle of Gettysburg doesn't merely begin with the first day of fighting. In truth, neither army merely stumbled upon each other at that crossroads town. Specific events, with specific people, all had to converge to create Gettysburg."
CHAPTER FIVE: NEVER FORGET
"Over the course of two hours, Everett circled and circled around the real issue, the real why of Gettysburg. After two hours, Everett left people with little but a collection of words, lacking meaning. Yet, in just two minutes, Lincoln managed to take dead-center aim at the meaning and left he world an address so powerful it has managed to long endure far beyond anything Lincoln would have imagined."
CHAPTER SIX: BE DEDICATED HERE
"Given the ideals of the nation, the people needed moral education based in biblical truth. This benefited the citizen in this life and certainly in the eternal. Such training would also be necessary for the maintaining, the checking of leaders. Therefore, the church, while it was to be kept separate from the influence of the state, was needed to maintain the foundations of the state."
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE GREAT TASK REMAINING
"Freedom, in its simplest form, is the ability to do whatever one, or a group, deems worthwhile without any boundaries, hindrances, or controls. While liberty, by itself, is similar in meaning, Civil Liberty, or what could be considered a true biblical liberty, means something entirely different, something very powerful. True liberty is freedom but with boundaries and hindrances, so as to keep an individual from violating the liberties of another. At the secular level, those boundaries and hindrances are the laws. Above the law, however, the ultimate authority is God."
CHAPTER EIGHT: THIS NATION, UNDER GOD,...SHALL NOT PERISH
"Throughout this revolution of this New Confederacy it is understandable to lose hope. But there, in the midst of this new civil war, lies Gettysburg. Why? The answer, the hope, is found in the battle itself. It holds crucial understanding that provides direction, but also, provides hope. Either we remember and learn the lessons of Gettysburg, or else this New Confederacy will finally achieve what it longed after when it came north in 1863. The civil war has begun anew. Our Gettysburg, one last turning point, could be around the corner."
AFTERWARD
"Like the photographer, we think we have time. Think that way, and the moment will pass, never to be captured again, and spend all eternity condemned for having missed the opportunity to be set free, forgiven, and welcomed into the kingdom of God."
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