Iniquity in High Places as Revealed in the American-Spanish-Filipino Wars of 1898, 1899, and Subsequent Years

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Page 28 - Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was plague amonf the congregation of the Lord, 17.
Page 48 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ; we must fight ! I repeat it, Sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.
Page 273 - bullets and bombshells will be replaced by votes, by " the venerable arbitration of a great sovereign senate, " which will be to Europe what the Parliament is to " England, what the Diet is to Germany, what the " Legislative Assembly is to France.
Page 26 - Honor thy father and thy mother. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor's.
Page 29 - Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD. 31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. 32 And the booty, being- the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, 33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, 34 And threescore...
Page 27 - So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Page 27 - And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. " And Moses •was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
Page 273 - A day will come when the only battlefield will be the market open to commerce and the mind opening to new ideas. A day will come when bullets and bombshells will be replaced by votes, by the universal suffrage of nations, by the venerable arbitration of a great Sovereign Senate...
Page 273 - ... their industry, their arts, their genius, clearing the earth, peopling the deserts, improving creation under the eye of the Creator, and uniting, for the good of all, these two irresistible and infinite powers, the fraternity of men and the power of God.
Page 29 - LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve. 39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred ; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one. 40 And the persons itere sixteen thousand ; of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.

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