Reverently we acknowledge the finger of the Almighty, and pray that our great trials may not fail, to the end that the promises of the Fathers may be fulfilled,--those promises, so great and glorious, which make the Declaration a title-deed of mankind.
Sumner invokes divine guidance in the face of trials, linking them to the promises of the nation's founders.
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