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... perhaps disgust another ; and a short essay might arrest the attention of him who never thought of reading a trea- tise on the same subject . I do not know that any other friend of peace , has , in this country , undertaken to write a ...
... perhaps disgust another ; and a short essay might arrest the attention of him who never thought of reading a trea- tise on the same subject . I do not know that any other friend of peace , has , in this country , undertaken to write a ...
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... perhaps be objected to the first text , " Thou shalt not kill , " that it only means to forbid murder . Granted - but what is mur- der , if wantonly and knowingly taking the life of an innocent person , is not ? Now war takes the lives ...
... perhaps be objected to the first text , " Thou shalt not kill , " that it only means to forbid murder . Granted - but what is mur- der , if wantonly and knowingly taking the life of an innocent person , is not ? Now war takes the lives ...
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... perhaps of all the precepts of the Bible , the most humbling to the pride of the human heart . It is nevertheless the command of our blessed Savior , and cannot be rejected unless we re- ject his authority . I am willing to concede ...
... perhaps of all the precepts of the Bible , the most humbling to the pride of the human heart . It is nevertheless the command of our blessed Savior , and cannot be rejected unless we re- ject his authority . I am willing to concede ...
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... and Scotland , each church bell had drawn togeth- er its worshippers . While many a mother's heart was sending upward a prayer for her son's preservation , perhaps that son was gasp- ing in 22 SABBATH DAY VIOLATED IN WAR .
... and Scotland , each church bell had drawn togeth- er its worshippers . While many a mother's heart was sending upward a prayer for her son's preservation , perhaps that son was gasp- ing in 22 SABBATH DAY VIOLATED IN WAR .
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... perhaps that son was gasp- ing in agony . " " We know that many thousands rushed into this fight , even of those who had been instructed in our own religious principles , without leisure for one serious thought ; and that some officers ...
... perhaps that son was gasp- ing in agony . " " We know that many thousands rushed into this fight , even of those who had been instructed in our own religious principles , without leisure for one serious thought ; and that some officers ...
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