The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and PeaceSixty four tracts, compiled and edited by George C. Beckwith, corresponding secretaty of the American Peace Society. Each tract is separately as well as consecutively paged. |
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... hard - earned property ; the great laden with taxes ; old people bereaved of their children , more cruelly killed by the murder of their offspring than by the sword ; women far advanced in age , left destitute , and put to death in ...
... hard - earned property ; the great laden with taxes ; old people bereaved of their children , more cruelly killed by the murder of their offspring than by the sword ; women far advanced in age , left destitute , and put to death in ...
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All this accords with the laws of war ; and every government , in its letters of marque and reprisal , licenses men to commit piracy at pleasure ! Thou shalt not kill . It is the very object , the main business of war to ...
All this accords with the laws of war ; and every government , in its letters of marque and reprisal , licenses men to commit piracy at pleasure ! Thou shalt not kill . It is the very object , the main business of war to ...
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War bids us kill the man that smites us , or attempts to smite us . Imagine a soldier repeating the Lord's prayer . Our Father in heaven ! And does the soldier , while butchering men , women and children , think to resemble Him who ...
War bids us kill the man that smites us , or attempts to smite us . Imagine a soldier repeating the Lord's prayer . Our Father in heaven ! And does the soldier , while butchering men , women and children , think to resemble Him who ...
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By hating , robbing , and killing his brethren ! Forgive us our trespasses , as we forgive those who trespass against us . Forgive by doing them all the injury in our power ! Would soldiers like to be forgiven in this way — by God's ...
By hating , robbing , and killing his brethren ! Forgive us our trespasses , as we forgive those who trespass against us . Forgive by doing them all the injury in our power ! Would soldiers like to be forgiven in this way — by God's ...
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_ I think , ” replied he very honestly and truly , we are more likely to perfect ourselves in the art of killing them ... When I ask Him to forgive me as I have my enemies , I will cease to kill them , or to encourage others in doing so ...
_ I think , ” replied he very honestly and truly , we are more likely to perfect ourselves in the art of killing them ... When I ask Him to forgive me as I have my enemies , I will cease to kill them , or to encourage others in doing so ...
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