...the American Civil War, like that of every civil war, was characterized more by this line than by the "glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me / As He died to make men holy, let us live ["die" in an earlier version] to make men free." The hatred for the slaveholding South...

...judgment seat; O be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on, 4. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, with the glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us live to make...

...New Testament Christ, whose sacrificial love for man Howe urges her fellow northerners to emulate: In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the...transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.50 To say that Howe's "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"...

...virtue embrace one another in perhaps the greatest of all American hymns, written by Julia Ward Howe: In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the...transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free! While God is marching on. But today we Americans are not marching in the...

...struggle to end our warfare here in this church. Most of all, let us remember him of whom Howe wrote: In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the...bosom that transfigures you and me As he died to make (us) holy, let us die to make (all) free Our God is marching on. The Flame of Creativity vs. The Fires...