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Page 98
... It is the duty , therefore , of every individual , who wishes and prays for so joyful a consumma- tion , to do something towards its advance- ment : NO . 17 . SENTIMENTS OF PIOUS OR EMINENT MODERN 98 OPINIONS ON WAR .
... It is the duty , therefore , of every individual , who wishes and prays for so joyful a consumma- tion , to do something towards its advance- ment : NO . 17 . SENTIMENTS OF PIOUS OR EMINENT MODERN 98 OPINIONS ON WAR .
Page 136
... ment , and it is received as true , unless some one is able to contradict it . " Thus with us , when a man is ambitious of power , whether civil or military , he has only to league with others , to blow up a war , and then , when he has ...
... ment , and it is received as true , unless some one is able to contradict it . " Thus with us , when a man is ambitious of power , whether civil or military , he has only to league with others , to blow up a war , and then , when he has ...
Page 148
... ment that I have not sufficient leisure , to pursue the investigation , in the manner that its importance demands . In tracing this subject , I must except two or three of the first centuries of the Cristian era , when the gospel was ...
... ment that I have not sufficient leisure , to pursue the investigation , in the manner that its importance demands . In tracing this subject , I must except two or three of the first centuries of the Cristian era , when the gospel was ...
Page 155
... ment of man , kindly hastening his fellow creatures to eternal happiness ; and might imagine , that God had set the Devil to do the work of Gabriel - that a battle was the har- vest of Heaven , and the reaping of it com- mitted to ...
... ment of man , kindly hastening his fellow creatures to eternal happiness ; and might imagine , that God had set the Devil to do the work of Gabriel - that a battle was the har- vest of Heaven , and the reaping of it com- mitted to ...
Page 160
... ment is unblushingly held by professed Christians . It would be easy , however , to prove the fallacy of this argument by fact . War is the most dreadful means of demoral- izing the human mind , and for one person of a vicious kind ...
... ment is unblushingly held by professed Christians . It would be easy , however , to prove the fallacy of this argument by fact . War is the most dreadful means of demoral- izing the human mind , and for one person of a vicious kind ...
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