`` Susan went over to mother and touched her shoulder . '' ` Do not you be frightened or downhearted , Mrs. Dr. dear , ' she said gently . ' I felt somewhat that way myself last night , and I rose from my bed and lighted my lamp and opened my Bible ; and what do you think was the first verse my eyes lighted upon ? It was ` And they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee , for I am with thee , saith the Lord of Hosts , to deliver thee . ' I am not gifted in the way of dreaming , as Miss Oliver is , but I knew then and there , Mrs. Dr. dear , that it was a manifest leading , and that Hindenburg will never see Paris . So I read no further but went back to my bed and I did not waken at three o'clock or at any other hour before morning . ' `` I say that verse Susan read over and over again to myself . The Lord of Hosts is with us -- and the spirits of all just men made perfect -- and even the legions and guns that Germany is massing on the western front must break against such a barrier . This is in certain uplifted moments ; but when other moments come I feel , like Gertrude , that I can not endure any longer this awful and ominous hush before the coming storm . '' 23rd March 1918 `` Armageddon has begun ! -- ` the last great fight of all ! ' Is it , I wonder ? Yesterday I went down to the post office for the mail . It was a dull , bitter day . The snow was gone but the grey , lifeless ground was frozen hard and a biting wind was blowing . The whole Glen landscape was ugly and hopeless . `` Then I got the paper with its big black headlines . Germany struck on the twenty-first . She makes big claims of guns and prisoners taken . General Haig reports that ` severe fighting continues . '
I do n't like the sound XXXXX that last expression .
So against as at before for like of to with