Excerpt from Hopes for English Religion
'Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.' - Gal. iv. 26.
We are beginning the fourth year of the war; our leaders have been taking stock and clearly stating its objects. Many statements of these are made. Some of them concern diplomatic arrangements or legal topics. With these we are not concerned here; what we are concerned with is the conflict between principles. The war, we have been told, is a war of ideals, and this is in the main true. The conflict is between the soul of the English and the soul of the Prussian. Our danger is that in conquering the body of our enemy we shall be inspired with his spirit.
Last week Mr. Asquith defined the meaning of the struggle as the conflict between ideals of freedom and of force. So far as we are assured that freedom is the end for which we are fighting, we know that our aim is spiritual. Faith in freedom implies faith in the spiritual nature of man. Prussia in its characteristic incarnation, Bismarck, always scouted the ideal of freedom, and her actions are all in harmony.
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