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when he is trying to kill you. If the Germans
have apostatized from Christianity, let that invite
 us to look to our own Faith, and to drive
vulgarity from our Religion, which it has nearly
destroyed. That is a task indeed: To build
again Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant
land.’ That is the work of Faith ; and since we
are asking Reason to guide us in the path of our
spiritual desire, let me remind you that Faith is
mainly the belief in God, and that the existence
of God is not demonstrable by logic. It lies
beyond. But Reason will approve of a truth that
she could not discover, nor can we wholly dissociate
 Reason from Instinct. Even as when we
deem ourselvesonly to be reasoning, we yet rely
on unapparent intuitions and unaccountable
axioms, so when against apparent Reason we
prefer a strong native assurance, it is Reason that
weighs the value of that assurance ; and our best
Faith is just this reasonable trust of our deeper
nature and better desires ; to doubt which were
destructive of any human ideal, and of Reason
itself. The truth which concerns Faith is whatever
 man goes darkly striving after in spite of