“There is an eternal justice and an eternal order. There is a wise, merciful and omnipotent God . . . My friends, have no fear of the night or death. It is the forerunner of dawn, a glowing resplendent dawn, whose iridescent rays will write across the pink sky in unmistakable language—man does live again.”

The final words of Michael A. Musmanno
in his debate with Clarence Darrow, 1932.

 

Dedicated to my grandmother,
Sara Bottegal Mazzei,
who I look forward to meeting in that “resplendent dawn”
that awaits us all.