Alter at Valley Forge
by Albert J. Beveridge
The sublimest figure in American history is
Washington on his knees at Valley Forge.
He was in that hour and place the American personified, not depending on their own
courage or goodness, but asking aid from
God, their Father and Preserver.
Washington knew that morals are priceless,
but he knew that morals are from within.
And he knew that in that dread day when all,
save courage, had forsaken the American
arms, appeal must be to that Power beyond
ourselves, eternal in the heavens, which after
all, in every crisis of the lives of men and nations, has been their surest source of
strength.
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