“I have worn the uniform of my native land in the time of total conflict. I have smelled the stench of human dead and wept tears for slaughtered comrades. I have climbed amid the rubble of ravaged cities and contemplated in horror the ashes of a civilization sacrificed to Moloch (Amos 5:26); yet knowing this, with the issues as they are, were I called again to military service, I could not conscientiously object!
“To you who have answered that call, we say: Serve honorably and well. Keep your faith, your character, your virtue” (Packer, in Conference Report, Apr. 1968, 36).