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... sword for the adjustment of international difficulties , are fast coming to form the established policy of Christendom . Let this process continue fifty years longer , and it will be well - nigh impossible to involve civilized nations ...
... sword for the adjustment of international difficulties , are fast coming to form the established policy of Christendom . Let this process continue fifty years longer , and it will be well - nigh impossible to involve civilized nations ...
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... sword in suppressing mobs and insurrections ; but these points form no part of our cause , and it is no more responsible for the views of its friends concerning them , than the cause of temperance is for the religious or political creed ...
... sword in suppressing mobs and insurrections ; but these points form no part of our cause , and it is no more responsible for the views of its friends concerning them , than the cause of temperance is for the religious or political creed ...
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... sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more . " — VI . SUBSTITUTES FOR WAR . We would not leave nations without means of protection or redress ; and , in recommending pacific expedients , we propose not the sacrifice ...
... sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more . " — VI . SUBSTITUTES FOR WAR . We would not leave nations without means of protection or redress ; and , in recommending pacific expedients , we propose not the sacrifice ...
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... sword . Often has a single march cut off more than half of an army . The hardships of war shorten from ten to twenty years the life of those who escape the sword , and thus occasion an immense loss that is never reckoned in the usual ...
... sword . Often has a single march cut off more than half of an army . The hardships of war shorten from ten to twenty years the life of those who escape the sword , and thus occasion an immense loss that is never reckoned in the usual ...
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... swords into plough - shares , and their spears into prun- ing - hooks ; nations shall not lift up sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more . ' Isa . 2 : 2-4 , 9 : 4-9 . Mic . 4 : 1-4 . But how is this promise to be ...
... swords into plough - shares , and their spears into prun- ing - hooks ; nations shall not lift up sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more . ' Isa . 2 : 2-4 , 9 : 4-9 . Mic . 4 : 1-4 . But how is this promise to be ...
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AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY Apostles argument arms army battle bayonet benevolence blessing blood cause of peace century character Chris Christ Christendom Christian church civil common crime custom dead death defence destroy disputes duty earth enemies England Europe evil father favor fight fire forbearance France French friends of peace glory gospel Greece hands heart heathen heaven honor horrors human hundred idolatry individuals influence justice kill land lawfulness of war less lives mankind mass means ment military millions mind misery missionaries Moloch moral murder Napoleon nations nature navy never object officer pacific pagan passions perish precepts Prince of Peace principles profession punishment Quakers reason religion religion of peace Resist not evil rulers Russia savage says sentiment ships slaughter soldiers soul Spain spirit suffering sword Tatian TERTULLIAN thing thou thousand tion truth violence virtue war-system warrior wars whole wounded wrong