God has in His good pleasure given us peace.

God has indeed been gracious.

While we render thanks for these things, let us not forget to seek the Divine guidance in the performance of those duties, and divine mercy and forgiveness for all errors of act or purpose.

Our gallant armies have participated in a triumph which is not marred or stained by any purpose of selfish aggression.

and pray that in all that we do we shall strengthen the ties of friendship and mutual respect upon which we must assist to build the new structure of peace and good will among the nations.

If they do not, we must await with patience and sympathy the awakening and recovery that will assuredly come at last.

The arbitrary power of the military caste of Germany which once could secretly and of its own single choice disturb the peace of the world is discredited and destroyed.

Armed imperialism such as the men conceived who were but yesterday the masters of Germany is at an end, its illicit ambitions engulfed in black disaster.

The war thus comes to an end; for, having accepted these terms of armistice, it will be impossible for the German command to renew it.

They will find that every pathway that is stained with the blood of their own brothers leads to the wilderness, not to the seat of their hope.

We must hold the light steady until they find themselves.

Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves and admit that these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered now or at once.