Addresses on War (Hardcover)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WAR SYSTEM OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS. Address Before The American Peace Society, At Its Anniversary Meeting In The Park Street Church, Boston, May 28, 1849. That it may please Thee to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord. The Litany. What angel shall descend to reconcile The Christian states, and end their guilty toil ? Waller. Quse harmonia a mnsicis dicitur in cantu, ea est in civitate concordia. Cicero, textit{De Bepublica, Lib. II. Cap. 42. Una dies Fabios ad bellum miserat omnes, Ad bellum missos perdidit una dies. Ovid, textit{Fasti, Lib. II. 235, 236. Cum hac persuasione vivendum est: Non sum uni augulo uatus; patria mea totus hie mundus est. Seneca, textit{Epistola XX VIII. Illi enim exorsi sunt non ab observandis telis aut armis auttubis; id enim invisnm illis est propter Deum quem in conscientia sua gestant. Marcus Aurelius, textit{Epistola ad Senatum: S. Justini textit{Apologia I. pro Oirii- tianis, Cap. 71. War is one of the greatest plagues that can afflict humanity: it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge, in fact, is preferable to it. Famine and pestilence become as nothing in comparison with it Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines. I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief. Martin Luther, textit{Table- Talk, tr. Hazlitt, pp. 331 - 332. Mulei Abdelummi. assaulted by his brother and wounded in the church, 1577, would not stirre till textit{sola, or prayer, was done. Purchas, textit{Pilgrims, Part II. Book IX. Chap. 12, 6, p. 1564. A duel may still be granted in some cases by the law of England, and only ...