ALMIGHTY GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE ADORE THEE AS OUR CREATOR, BENEFACTOR, AND OUR FRIEND.
THOU HAST BEEN WITH US IN THE PAST, THOU ART WITH US NOW.
THY KIND PROVIDENCE HAS BROUGHT US SAFELY TO THIS HOUR, IN THE MARCH BY DAY AND NIGHT, IN THE SILENT BIVOUAC, IN THE SUFFERINGS OF THE HOSPITAL, IN THE AGONIES OF THE WAR PRISON, IN THE DANGER ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
THY LOVE HAS BEEN MANIFESTED, AND WE THANK THEE FOR IT.
WE PRAY THAT THY GRACE MAY COMFORT THE BEREAVED HEARTS THROUGHOUT OUR LAND THAT ARE SMITTEN BECAUSE THE LOVED ONES COME NOT.
BRING LIGHT TO DARKENED HOMES, PEACE TO TROUBLED HEARTS, COMFORT TO WEARY SOULS, JOY TO THOSE OF OUR COMRADES WHO STILL BEAR IN THIER BODIES THE EFFECTS OF DISEASE, OR WOUNDS.
KEEP US EVER TO CHERISH THE MEMORY OF OUR COMRADES WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY.
BLESS OUR BELOVED LAND, MAY IT EVER BE THE LAND OF THE FREE.
GOD OF BATTLES, FATHER OF ALL, WE BESEECH THEE LOOK IN MERCY ON THE WIDOWS, AND CHILDREN OF DECEASED COMRADES, AND WITH THINE OWN TENDERNESS CONSOLE, AND COMFORT THOSE BEREAVED BY THIS EVENT WHICH CALL'S US HERE.
GIVE THEM THE OIL OF JOY FOR MOURNING, THE GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS. BLESS OUR FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION, AND MAKE IT AN INSTRUMENTALITY IN THY HANDS OF DOING MUCH GOOD.
KEEP US ALSO TO LIVE, AND BE HEROIC THAN WHEN EARTH'S BATTLES ARE OVER, WE MAY REST IN PERFECT PEACE WITH THE NATIONS THAT WALK IN THE LIGHT OF THE CELESTIAL CITY.
AMEN.