"All our doings being ordered by thy governance"
"A goodly heritage" : Anglicanism in Lee's Virginia
"A house divided" : faith in the Lee household
"Who setteth the solitary in families" : Lee's extended clan
"To illuminate all bishops" : William Meade and his influence
"With the sign of the cross" : the young officer
"To have and to hold" : struggling to unite two as one
"Christ's faithful soldier and servant" : Lee, family, and church
"This our bounden duty and service" : from peace to war
"That, as we grow in age, we may grow in grace" : father and superintendent
"That he may continue thine forever" : Lee's confirmation
"Of the traditions of the church" : Lee the Episcopalian
"Whose never-failing providence ordereth all things" : Lee's central tenet
"Under the protection of thy good providence" : the Lee family
"Help thy servants, whom thou hast redeemed" : Lee and slavery
"Scatter thou the peoples that delight in war" : Lee's first great decision
"Who teacheth my hands to war" : the years of struggle
"In the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life" : Lee's second great decision
"To put away the leaven of malice" : pursuing reconciliation
"The mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me" : the uneasy peace
"Do now rest from their labors" : the earthly end
Non incautus futuri : a personal epilogue.
