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... thing can be done , and will be , whenever the voice of Christen- dom shall demand it . - VII . TESTIMONIES TO THE CAUSE OF PEACE . A dis tinguished English missionary in India attributes to us " the honor of inventing two of the most ...
... thing can be done , and will be , whenever the voice of Christen- dom shall demand it . - VII . TESTIMONIES TO THE CAUSE OF PEACE . A dis tinguished English missionary in India attributes to us " the honor of inventing two of the most ...
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... thing which can deform the character , alter the nature , and debase the name of man . " PHILOSOPHERS . - We need not quote largely from philosophers ; but in the van of them all we will place the great philosopher of common sense , our ...
... thing which can deform the character , alter the nature , and debase the name of man . " PHILOSOPHERS . - We need not quote largely from philosophers ; but in the van of them all we will place the great philosopher of common sense , our ...
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... thing as a good war , or a bad peace . All wars are follies , very expensive and very mischievous ones . When will mankind be convinced of this , and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration ? Were they to do it even by the ...
... thing as a good war , or a bad peace . All wars are follies , very expensive and very mischievous ones . When will mankind be convinced of this , and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration ? Were they to do it even by the ...
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... thing sacred and profane . " " Behold with the mind's eye savage troops of men horrible in their very visage and voice ; men clad in steel , drawn upon every side in battle - array , and armed with weapons that are frightful in their ...
... thing sacred and profane . " " Behold with the mind's eye savage troops of men horrible in their very visage and voice ; men clad in steel , drawn upon every side in battle - array , and armed with weapons that are frightful in their ...
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... thing as war first into the minds of men ? Why should creatures , born to exercise mercy and meekness , so rave and rage like beasts rushing on to their own destruction ? So abominable a thing is war ! And yet warriors are the brave ...
... thing as war first into the minds of men ? Why should creatures , born to exercise mercy and meekness , so rave and rage like beasts rushing on to their own destruction ? So abominable a thing is war ! And yet warriors are the brave ...
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Page 51 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath ; for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 49 - But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 495 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you...
Page 498 - When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword ? 50 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
Page 562 - And now to that same spot, in the south of Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending; till at length after infinite effort the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word
Page 503 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 190 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 410 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 52 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 190 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man ; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug...