Oh how right he was!
Indeed. Shortened,
And let me say, gentlemen, that if we and our posterity shall be true to the Christian religion...we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country..It will go on prospering and to prosper. But if we and our posterity reject religious institutions and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.