We sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers" indeed, and I felt that this was no vain presumption, but that we had the right to feel that we were serving a cause for the sake of which a trumpet has sounded from on high. When I looked upon that densely packed congregation of fighting men of the same language, of the same faith, of the same fundamental laws, of the same ideals ... it swept across me that here was the only hope, but also the sure hope, of saving the world from measureless degradation.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers" indeed, and I felt that this was no vain presumption, but that we had the right to feel that we were serving a cause for the sake of which a trumpet has sounded from on high. When I looked upon that densely packed congregation of fighting men of the same language, of the same faith, of the same fundamental laws, of the same ideals ... it swept across me that here was the only hope, but also the sure hope, of saving the world from measureless degradation." in the context of "Winston Churchill, when meeting with Franklin Roosevelt in August 1941 on the battleship HMS Prince of Wales to agree on the Atlantic Charter, Ace Collins (2003), Stories Behind the Hymns That Inspire America, pages: 153–154, place: Grand Rapids, Mich., publisher: Zondervan, ISBN: 978-0-310-24879-8" to mean that wisdom is timeless.