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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nThe tasks now confronting us are formidable, The conditions\nfor meeting the heavy problems of war settlement and of new problems\nstill unsolved are accompanied by multiplied discouragements. Unless\nthe moral forces of the world now join their strength, discourage-\nment must inevitably deepen, and the strength and effectiveness which\nthereby would be lost by these moral forces would be gained by 'those\nforces which oppose 'and seek to destroy them. The hopes and ideals\nof mankind have often been jeopardized by force. They will be\njeopardized today by any division of the moral forces of the world\nor, by any refusal to support and strengthen the hopes and ideals of\nall mankind.\nAs the chosen leader of the people of the United States I\nam privileged to pledge full faith to you once again to work with\nYour Holiness and with every agency of good the world over for an\nenduring peace. An enduring peace can be built only upon Christian\nprinciples. To such a consummation we dedicate all our resources,\nboth spiritual and material, remembering always that except the Lord\nbuild the house, they labor in vain who build it.\nYour Holiness, this is a Christian Nation. More than a half\ncentury ago that declaration was written into the decrees of the high-\nest court in this land. It is not without significance that the\nvaliant pioneers who left Frope to establish settlements here, at the\nvery beginning of their colonial enterprises, declared their faith\nin the Christian religion and made ample provision for its practice\nand for its support. The story of the Christian missionaries who in\nearliest days endured perils, hardship -- even death itself in carry-\ning the message of Jesus Christ to untutored savages is one that\nstill moves the hearts of men.\nAs a Christian Nation our earnest desire is to work with\nmen of good will everywhere to banish war and the causes of war from\nthe world whose Creator desired that men of every race and in every\nclime should live together in peace, good will and mutual trust.\nFreedom of conscience, ordained by the Fathers of our Constitution\nto all who live under the flag of the United States, has been a bul-\nwark of national strength, a source of happiness, from the establish-\nment of our Nation to this day.\nI believe that the greatest need of the world today, funda-\nmental to all else, is a renewal R faith. I seek to encourage renewed\nfaith in the dignity and worth of the human person in all lands, to the\nend that the individual's sacred rights, inherent in his relationship\nto God and his fellows, will be respected in every land. We must have\nfaith in the inevitable triumph of truth and decency; faith that man-\nkind shall live in freedom, not in the chains of untruth nor in the\nchains of a collectivist organization of their lives; faith of such\nfullness that it will energize men and women everywhere to build with\ntenacity, the better social world order under self-rule. The times\ndemand faith that is strong enough to struggle if need be for the\nright, that is able to endure troubles and hardships, attack and\neven contempt from forces of evil and able to arise reborn and\nrevitalized from the daily struggle. Faith leads to hope, to\ndetermination, to trust in the truth and the good, and to sustained\neffort to create the kind of peace and well-being sought by humble\nmen and women in all lands and which will ultimately prevail\nbetween\nall nations. Through faith, the purposes of God shall be carried\nout in the hearts and deeds of Man. I believe with heartfelt con-\nviction that those who do not recognize their responsibility to\nAlmighty God cannot meet their full duty toward their fellow men.\nRUMAN\n6 ARCHIVES \"NATIONAL SERVICE\" RECORDS AND"
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