Series: Virginia Shrine Mont CFO 1959

Starr Daily closes out the Virginia Shrine Mont CFO in 1959 with the hidden reverse of the Great Seal. Its pyramid carries an all-seeing capstone that has to be brought down onto the nation’s political life through repentance. He then sets Edward Everett’s two-hour Gettysburg oration against Lincoln’s few paragraphs, wrung out of a broken heart, to show that eloquence without love is only “sounding brass.”

Starr Daily gets to church a half hour early and sits in the empty sanctuary, where “the very walls cry out” with the preaching and prayer they have absorbed. He credits churches with holding crime back. He also recalls, for campers at the Virginia Shrine Mont CFO in 1959, a skid row derelict whose prayer, “God help this man,” ended two weeks of darkness.