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Page 196
... individuals and for na- tions , the surest grounds of trust and safety . We are well aware that the mass of even Christians do not think so ; and hence we would fain do what we can to rectify herein their wrong modes of reasoning , and ...
... individuals and for na- tions , the surest grounds of trust and safety . We are well aware that the mass of even Christians do not think so ; and hence we would fain do what we can to rectify herein their wrong modes of reasoning , and ...
Page 197
... individual or national intercourse . Let us first ascertain the precise point in dispute . The ques- tion is not whether the principles of peace , any measures of for- bearance , kindness and conciliation , will , in every case , avert ...
... individual or national intercourse . Let us first ascertain the precise point in dispute . The ques- tion is not whether the principles of peace , any measures of for- bearance , kindness and conciliation , will , in every case , avert ...
Page 198
... individuals , aban- don or relax the war - principle just as far as they rise in the scale of gene- ral cultivation , and come under the sway of moral influences . Nations , even while retaining the war - system in the back - ground as ...
... individuals , aban- don or relax the war - principle just as far as they rise in the scale of gene- ral cultivation , and come under the sway of moral influences . Nations , even while retaining the war - system in the back - ground as ...
Page 202
... individual crimes ? Why then do the followers of the Prince of Peace remain silent , and tacitly , perhaps ac- tively , approve of ordinary war ? The proclamation at our Saviour's birth was , 66 Glory to God in the highest , and on ...
... individual crimes ? Why then do the followers of the Prince of Peace remain silent , and tacitly , perhaps ac- tively , approve of ordinary war ? The proclamation at our Saviour's birth was , 66 Glory to God in the highest , and on ...
Page 204
... individual losses by the citizens of both countries must have been many times as great . Suppose it the same ; and here we have expended on the American side in seven years money enough to provide the present population of the whole ...
... individual losses by the citizens of both countries must have been many times as great . Suppose it the same ; and here we have expended on the American side in seven years money enough to provide the present population of the whole ...
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Page 348 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you...
Page 233 - Christ. 2 Cor. iii. 18. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 340 - Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Page 345 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you : but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 366 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
Page 279 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good. and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good.
Page 348 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 348 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 368 - His paths : for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks : nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 348 - Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.