On Dec. 26, 1941, Winston Churchill concluded his address to the United States Congress by telling American leaders: “I will say that he must indeed have a blind soul who cannot see that some great purpose and design is being worked out here below of which we have the honor to be the faithful servants.”

Churchill wasn’t a particularly religious man. But he was a soldier and a devoted historian, and his experience in both these fields allowed him to recognize the existence of a higher authority.

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