While unfeignedly grateful to their Heavenly Father that war has ended and peace dwells again in the land, it is with saddened hearts that the managers recall the thought that they will never again meet as a Soldiers' Aid Society… The great motive for labor, which united them and caused so close a bond, has passed away. The many pleasant and painful associations are things of the past… United in our common Christian work, we can never in after days forget the bond of union that kept us together during the four years of the war.