Self-Sacrifice and Self-Denial: An Address by Sir Thomas White, K. C. M. G., Minister of Finance, to the Congregation of St. James's Methodist Church, Montreal, on February 25th, 1917 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Self-Sacrifice and Self-Denial: An Address by Sir Thomas White, K. C. M. G., Minister of Finance, to the Congregation of St. James's Methodist Church, Montreal, on February 25th, 1917

We are entering upon, so to speak, the religious stage of this war. No democracy ever puts forth its greatest, its strongest, its most powerful efi'ort, until the religious sentiment of the democracy comes into force. We are entering upon the religious stage of this war. You recall the war, the greatest of the last century, the War of the American secession. You recall the closing period of that war; how the moral feeling, moral sentiment of the nation was aroused and found utterance through its poets and the public men. You recall Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic. You recall the second inaugural address of the greatest of Presidents of the Ameri can people. Let me read it to you to show how the religious feeling of the President was touched by the great crisis with which he was confronted.

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