The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and Peace |
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... millions of sol- diers in Christendom are compelled to violate the Sabbath ; and , where the war - spirit is rife , it will be found well nigh impossible to preserve , in any degree of vigor , this main- spring of God's moral government ...
... millions of sol- diers in Christendom are compelled to violate the Sabbath ; and , where the war - spirit is rife , it will be found well nigh impossible to preserve , in any degree of vigor , this main- spring of God's moral government ...
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... millions , that hire you as one of their soldiers to kill whom- soever they may wish to have killed , and promise to give you , besides your food and clothing , some ten or twenty cents a day . The nation , indignant that the Chinese ...
... millions , that hire you as one of their soldiers to kill whom- soever they may wish to have killed , and promise to give you , besides your food and clothing , some ten or twenty cents a day . The nation , indignant that the Chinese ...
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... millions to do the same deed by wholesale , is admired and eulogized as a hero ? To kill multitudes at the bidding of millions , is deemed patriotic , glorious , Christian , worthy of songs , and eulogies , and monuments ; but to kill ...
... millions to do the same deed by wholesale , is admired and eulogized as a hero ? To kill multitudes at the bidding of millions , is deemed patriotic , glorious , Christian , worthy of songs , and eulogies , and monuments ; but to kill ...
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... millions of the youth of Europe have been brought to an untimely grave . But instead of a paragraph , a volume would be necessary to delineate all the evils which have sprung from the prevalence of a pagan morality in the higher walks ...
... millions of the youth of Europe have been brought to an untimely grave . But instead of a paragraph , a volume would be necessary to delineate all the evils which have sprung from the prevalence of a pagan morality in the higher walks ...
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... millions , and not less than three millions of these , on the lowest calculation , perished in the field , the hospital or the bivouac . If to these we add , as we un- questionably must , at least an equal number out of the ranks of ...
... millions , and not less than three millions of these , on the lowest calculation , perished in the field , the hospital or the bivouac . If to these we add , as we un- questionably must , at least an equal number out of the ranks of ...
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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