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... destroy , is the soldier's professed business ! At Hamburg , 40,000 persons were driven from their homes without ... destroyed every building for leagues together ; and around Leipsic nothing was spared , neither the ox , nor the calf ...
... destroy , is the soldier's professed business ! At Hamburg , 40,000 persons were driven from their homes without ... destroyed every building for leagues together ; and around Leipsic nothing was spared , neither the ox , nor the calf ...
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... destroy ; -the rapid spread of the gospel in pagan lands , the fuller development of its spirit in Christendom , and the more direct , more efficacious application of its principles to every species of sin and misery ; -all the en ...
... destroy ; -the rapid spread of the gospel in pagan lands , the fuller development of its spirit in Christendom , and the more direct , more efficacious application of its principles to every species of sin and misery ; -all the en ...
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... destroys them . Christianity elevates men ; war debases and degrades them . Christianity pu- rifies men ; war corrupts and defiles them . Christianity blesses men ; war curses them . God says , thou shalt not kill ; war says , thou ...
... destroys them . Christianity elevates men ; war debases and degrades them . Christianity pu- rifies men ; war corrupts and defiles them . Christianity blesses men ; war curses them . God says , thou shalt not kill ; war says , thou ...
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... destroy men's lives , but to save them . " So discordant is this description with the general sentiments , and feelings , and practice of mankind in the present day , that some may still be inclined to disbelieve the existence of such a ...
... destroy men's lives , but to save them . " So discordant is this description with the general sentiments , and feelings , and practice of mankind in the present day , that some may still be inclined to disbelieve the existence of such a ...
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... destroyed . " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence , even from your lusts that war in your mem- bers ? " But what are those lusts of which the Apostle speaks ? Are they a peculiar form of malignity ? Has ...
... destroyed . " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence , even from your lusts that war in your mem- bers ? " But what are those lusts of which the Apostle speaks ? Are they a peculiar form of malignity ? Has ...
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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