12011 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. ON EARTH PEACE, NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE NOTE TO OUR PATRONS. We are much hindered in our noble work of diffusing the sentiments of peace and good will, for lack of adequate funds. Millions go for war, but little is devoted to peace. Let our friends think on these things and enquire of the great "Prince of Peace," what wilt thou have me to do? Come, friends, respond at once and send donations greater or smaller, to enable us to do the work of righteousness which is peace, and pay promptly our bills as they become due. to the wise is sufficient. A word H. C. DUNHAM, Office Agent of Am. P. S. MEMBERSHIP. The payment of any sum between $2.00 and $20.00 constitutes a person a member of the American Peace Society for one year, $20.00 a life member, $50.00 a life director, and $100.00 an honorary member. 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The Life and Times of Charles Sumner, his boyhood, education and public career, by Elias Nason. Three hundred and sixty pages, substantially bound, with a capital likeness and finely illustrated. Mr. Nason, evidently con amore, has wrought ont with a vivid hand the facts in the life and times of the great statesman and advocate of peace, allowing him to speak for himself by giving the reader many passages of the masterly speeches which electrified and purified the nation. This book which will repay many times reading, ought to go into every library and family in the land, especially into the hands of every young man and student as an inspiration to pure and lofty aims; for Charles Sumner "being dead yet speaketh" to his countrymen and the world of justice and peace. Price only $1.50 and will be sent, postage paid, for price, by addressing Rev. H. C. Dunham, No. 1 Somerset St., Boston. DYMOND ON WAR. This remarkable work is receiving unwonted attention from the reading public. Orders come to the office almost daily for it. We are indebted to Mr. Robert Lindley Murray, one of the Trustees of the Lindley Murray Fund, of New York city, for a new grant of several hundred copies of this most excellent Peace Document. We call the special attention of ministers to the fact that it will be sent to them free, whenever they remit Its retail ten cents postage. It is a book of 124 octavo pages. price 50 cents. Address all your orders to Rev. H. C. Dunham, No. 1 Somerset St., Boston. THE APOSTLE OF PEACE.-Memoir of William Ladd.-By John Hemmenway.-A most remarkable book of one of the greatest and best men that ever lived, well spiced with anecdotes, will be read with lively interest by the old and the young, and should be in every family and Sunday school in the land. It contains about 300 pages, with a fine likeness of Mr. Ladd. Substantially bound in muslin, $1.00. Will be sent by mail, postage paid, on reception of the price. Address Rev. H. C. Dunham, No. 1 Somerset St., Boston. Commendation of the Peace Cause by Prominent Men. OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY. "The cause of Peace we regard as an eminently philanthropic and Christian enterprise of great importance, and worthy of sympathy and support. It has already accomplished much. good, and would doubtless accomplish vastly more, if it possessed adequate means. We think it deserves, as it certainly needs, a large increase of funds. The American Peace Society, eharged with the care of this cause in our own country, and whose management has deservedly secured very general approbation, we cordially commend to the liberal patronage of the benevolent." A. P. Peabody, D. D. LL. D., Cambridge, Mass. A. A. Mmer, D. D., Pres't Tufts College, Boston, Mass. Hon. Wm. A. Buckingham, Ex-Gov. of Conn Luke Hitchcock, D. D., Cmennati, Ohio. Leonard Bacon, D. D., New Haven, Conn. Rev. John H. Aughey, St. Louis Mo. Stephen H. Tyng, D. D., New York. Howard Malcom, D. D, LL. D., Philadelphia. Bishop Thomas A. Morris, Springfield, Ohio. Rev. T. D. Woolsey, D. D, LL. D., Ex-President Yale College. E. O. Haven, D. D., Evanston, Ill. Hon. David Turner, Crown Point, Ind. J. M. Gregory, LL. D., Champaign, Ill. R. M. Hatfield, D. D., Chicago, Ill. Hon. Wm. R. Marshall, Ex-Gov. of Minn. Hon. James Harlan, U. S. Senator, lowa. Rev. P. Akers, D. D., Jacksonville, Il! Rev. Noah Porter, D. D., LL. D., Pres. Yale College. Rev Prof. Samuel Harriss, D. D., LL. D., Yale Theo. Seminary. Mark Hopkins, D. D., LL. D., Williams College. Emory Washburn, LL. D., Cambridge, Mass. Hon Reverdy Johnson, Baltimore, Md. David Dudley Field, LL. D., New York. Hon. Gerritt Smith, Peterboro', New York. Hon. Peter Cooper, New York. George H. Stuart, Esq., Philadelphia. Hon. F. R. Brunot, Chairman Indian Commission, Pittsburg, Pa. Hon. Elihu Burritt, New Britain, Ct. Hon. Edward S. Tobey, Boston, Mass. Amasa Walker, LL. D., No. Brookfield, Mass. George F. Gregory, Mayor of Fredericton, N. B. Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, New York. Hon. G. Washington Warren, Pres. Bunker Hill Mt. As'uion. Hon. John J. Fraser, Provincial Secretary, N. B. C. H. B. Fisher, Esq., Fredericton, N. B. T. H. Rand, Chief Superintendent Education, N. B. A. F. Randolf, Esq., Fredericton, N. B. J. B. Morrow, Esq., Halifax, N S. John S. Maclean, Esq., Halifax, N. S. D. Henry Starr, Esq., Halifax, N. S. M. H. Richey, Ex-Mayor, Halifax, N. S. Geo. H. Starr, Esq., Halifax, N. S. Jay Cooke, Esq., Philadelphia. John G. Whittier, Amesbury, Mass. Hon. Charles T. Russell, Cambridge, Mass. Joseph A. Dugdale, Iowa. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn, NY. GOVERNORS SIDNEY PERHAM, Governor of Maine. C. C CARPENTER, Governor of Iowa. P. H. LESLIE, Governor of Kentucky. HARRISON REED, Governor of Florida. HONORARY PRESIDENT. HOWARD MALCOM, D.D. LL.D., Philadelphia. PRESIDENT. HON. EDWARD S. TOBEY, Boston. VICE-PRESIDENTS. HON. AMASA WALKER, LL.D., North Brookfield, Mass. ANDREW P. PEABODY, D.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Mass. ELIHU BURRITT, Esq., New Britain, Ct. JOHN G. WHITTER, A. M. Amesbury, Mass. REV. A. LORD, Elgin, Ill. MYRON PHELPS, Esq., Lewiston, Ill. Gov. CONRAD BAKER, Indianapolis, Ind. HON. PETER COOPER, New York. R. P. STEBBINS, D.D., Ithaca, N. Y. HON. ROBERT C. WINTHROP, Brookline, Mass. HON. FELIX R. BRUNOT, Pittsburg, Pa. HON. REVERDY JOHNSON, Baltimore, Md. THEODORE D. WOOLSEY, D.D., LL.D., New Haven, Conn HON. EMORY WASHBURN, Cambridge, Mass. HON. WM. CLAFLIN, Boston, Mass. REV. MARK HOPKINS, D.D., LL.D., Williams College. REV. W. A. STEARNS, D.D., LL.D., Amherst College. REV. DORUS CLARKE, D. D., Boston. HON. WM. E. DODGE, New York. GEORGE H. STUART, ESQ., Philadelphia. HON. JACOB SLEEPER, Boston. REV. E. E. HALE, Boston. WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, ESQ., Boston. HON. HENRY L. PIERCE, Boston. SAMUEL RODMAN, New Bedford, Mass. D. C. SCOFIELD, Esq., Elgin, Ill. REV. SIDI H. BROWNE, Columbia, South Carolina. REV. GEO. W. THOMPSON, Stratham, N. H. WM. G. HUBBARD, Delaware, Ohio. ABEL STEVENS, LL.D., Brooklyn, N. Y. REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, Boston, Mass. REV. G. N. BOARDMAN, D. D., Chicago, Ill. HIRAM HADLEY, ESQ., Chicago, Ill. T. B. COOLEDGE, Esq,, Lawrence, Mass. M. H. SARGENT, Esq., Boston. SAMUEL WILLETTS, ESQ., N. Y. HON. EDWARD LAWRENCE, Charlestown, Mass. HON. C. W. GODDARD, Portland, Me. HON. ALPHEUS HARDY, Boston. DANIEL S. TALCOTT, D. D., Bangor, Me. A. S. MORSE, Esq., Charlestown, Mass. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. H. H. LEAVITT, Esq., Boston. HON. G. WASHINGTON WARREN, Boston. J. E. FARWELL, Esq., Boston. HON. C. T. RUSSELL, Cambridge. EDWARD A. LAWRENCE, D.D., Marblehead. REV. DORUS CLARKE, D. D., Boston. JOHN W. FIELD, Esq., Boston. REV. JOHN W. OLMSTEAD, D. D., Boston. THOMAS WESTON, Esq., Newton. REV. J. B. MILES, D. D., Corresponding Secretary. REV. H. C. DUNHAM, Recording Secretary. REV. DAVID PATTEN, D. D., Treasurer. THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. ON EARTH PEACE. . . . NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S OFFICIAL HONESTY. Honesty is the best policy, and it is likewise the only true principle. A poor man is not debarred from rising in life by his poverty, if his character is untainted and his ambition wise. If he has been faithful in a limited career, the probability is that he has prepared himself for higher responsibility. The eyes of a community are fixed upon those who do well the duties entrusted to them; and when the time comes, as it always will come, for advancement, the testimony borne to a good reputation is supported by willing hearts and helping hands. Abraham Lincoln, before he moved to Springfield, was postmaster in a small western town. The office was poor, and Lincoln was poorer than the office. It was known that he was very hard up, and it was also known that the Wash ington agent was in town to collect the little sum due the General Post office. A friend, thinking Lincoln might be embarrassed, came down to the office to lend him the sum necessary to meet the demand. Mr. Lincoln thanked him, and said he did not need any loan. While the two were talking, the geuLincoln tleman came in. The sum due was less than $100. went to his desk and took out a little bag, and turned the coin on the table. It was counted out, and met the demand exactly. Well it might, for it was not only the exact amount due, but the identical money itself that Lincoln had taken in; old fashioned rix dollars, pistareens, sixpences, old fashioned cents, and all were there. I never use money that belongs to other people," said Lincoln, and that resolution did much toward making him President of the United States. 6. VIRGINIA TO MASSACHUSETTS. BY COL. C. G. BAYLOR. Across the chasm dark and bloody Where armed Hate once cruel stood, Let us build anew our union Of the human brotherhood. Unfurl for us the nation's banner,- We, too, would claim and share its glory, In the days long past, our fathers Stood beneath that flag's broad fold; In the days to come, our children Will with yours its fame uphold. "Judge not that ye be not judgéd," Comes the warning from above; 46 Forgive, as thou would'st be forgiven," Plead the heavenly words of love. The raven's cry of WAR is ended, The land redeemed has ceased to mourn; Then let our hymns in praise be blended, Oh, let the dove of peace return, Northern graves by Southern kindred Decked by Southern flowers shall be ; Emblem of the power that conquers, Blessed power of charity! Christian reconciliation On the altar of God's will; Who shall stay its consummation? Who shall seek to part us still? LIGHT IN DARKNESS. BY HORACE GREELEY. O God! our way through darkness leads, To each slow-wearing night: Make us to know, though pain and woe That I at last in death lies low, Too long th' oppressor's iron heel Of steadfast faith that Wrong shall die, We walk in shadow; thickest walls Our brothers spurn our tenderest calls, Yet though fell Craft, with fiendish thought, Wrath clouds our sky; War lifts on high Each monstrous birth o'erspreads the earth In Battle's gory train: Yet still we trust in God the Just, Sull keep our faith alive, That 'neath Thine eye, all Hate shall die, And only Love survive. A PROPHET OF PEACE. We copy from the London Christian World an eloquent letter from Salvatore Morelli, the distinguished advocate of an International Congress for superseding War by Arbitration. It lacks the religious, Christian element to give it still greater force, but it is an eloquent plea for giving up the barbarism of an appeal to arms as the only means of deciding the questions that arise between nations. The letter is introduced by one from William Howett, from which we make some extracts, explaining the occasion for it being written : The Italians are taking measures for the removal of the remains of Alberigo Gentili from the church of St. Helen's, London, to the church of Santa Croce, Florence. Alberigo Gentili was the founder of the system of International Law, being the precursor of Grotius. So long ago he proposed that the much abused power of making war should be taken out of the hands of monarchs, and the power of keeping peace by international arbitration should be consigned to the hands of a Congress, or international tribunal, composed of some of the wisest and best men of each nation. This is what it must come to finally. Signor Salvatore Morelli, one of the most distinguished members of the Italian Parliament and the more distinguished author of Woman and Science,' a work whose object is to advocate a higher and more practical education of women, as not only the mothers but the first instructors of the race, being invited to join the committee for Gentili's monument, has addressed to it the following letter, which should first be prefaced by the motion which he made in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1870: "The Chamber, recognizing in the Italian Government the mission of initiating at Rome the era of peace and liberty, invites the Ministry to adopt the most efficacious means of putting itself into accord with the other States of Europe for the civil process of a general disarmament, creating an international tribunal which shall decide with justice those questions which hitherto have resulted in the disasters of inhuman and most expensive wars." And now for this splendid letter in reply to the invitation of the Committee of the Gentili Monument : ROME, July 28, 1875. Gentlemen-From the moment that I saw arise a committee for a monument for Alberigo Gentili, the founder of the school of international reform in the interests of peace, I have been at the post where your letter found me, watching for the maintenance of a thesis which responds to all the aspirations of my habitual studies, and following with all my heart the most diligent apostleship of my illustrious friend and colleague, P. Stanislas Mancini, and other distinguished persons, which seeks to call together the most eminent spirits of Europe, whatever otherwise may be the diversity of their opinions. Yes, the epoch of peace is mature! Humanity awaits it as the reconstitution of its new destinies; as the limit of its great miseries; as the victory of reason over brute force, which disorders everything, tramples on everything, exhausts everything, and restores nothing which is just and durable. What I differ from you in is the much too restricted view, which you take of the event. To erect a sepulchre, a mausoleum, a Son Ginesio, is like making a solemn funeral for a dead man. But Alberigo Gentili is not dead. He symbolizes a principle which ferments in the universal conscience, and will finish by becoming the policy of every civil government. He, indeed, who, amidst all the conflicts of medieval Cainism, divined this crisis, anticipating by three centuries the era of peace, is more than a prophet; he is a saint, and as such the solemnity which you prepare for him should be a true consecration, placing his bones in the Pantheon of Rome, and his statue in the Campidoglio. In the Pantheon, because his name, the symbol of peace, has a cosmopolitan and superconfessional signification which imposes itself on all the beliefs in the world In the Campidoglio, by the side of the Cæsar of War, because assuming Italy at Rome to have a real mission of international fraternity, nothing can express this more loftily or more nobly than elevating upon the rock of its traditional glories the statue of Alberigo Gentili! THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. 59 Nor ought the meritorious committee to think of stopping out with Bible and prayers, with guns and swords, and butcher there It ought besides so to act that on the day in which each other in the latest and most approved style of rapid wholeshall be inaugurated the monument of Alberigo Gentili, there sale destruction! That which gives amazement to this fact is, shall be called together at Rome an areopagus of the world, that men, who profess to be sent by Christ to "preach the composed of members of Parliaments, of academies, all the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things" to highest intelligences of every country, thither invited, who, in all the world, to "every creature," are to be found teaching one solemn proclamation, shall determine without reticence, or their people and the outside world that this fact is in accord the hypocrisy of custom, the means of combating radically the with the religion of Jesus Christ! He that hath eyes and ears to system of war. see and hear, let him see and hear! If the spirit of the times imposes even on the Czar of Russia so far as to stimulate him to congregate the sovereigns in order to discover how to mitigate and cover over the iniquity of this premeditated murder called war, which immolates at the caprice and the ambition of a few the life and the substance of the nations, how much more then ought the wise to feel this, to whom the light of intellect shows all the irrationality of this monster horror? Be, therefore, the first to excommunicate this barbarous institution, which was condemned from the very day in which the penal code admitted the most serious pleas against homicide and premeditated assassination, which ceased equally to be a necessity the day in which arbitration was proved possible as the determiner of the gravest international questions, and in which, finally, the world was convinced that education, rendering less frequent the little social wars of meum et tuum, it is possible to eliminate the causes which nourish the criminal prejudice of false heroism. Let us seek, therefore, to determine, with the authority of a scientific body, running counter to that of war, to make those blush who seek massacres for interested purposes. Let us recall diplomacy to gentler councils; let us dissipate that militarism which destroys the spirit of the citizens in barracks, and their bodies on the field of battle. Let us cease to bestow foolishly premiums on the inventors of murderous arms, and let us cry to all the winds of heaven, "The school! the school! the school!" so organizing our statutes that they may become the efficient means of completing the school, the most useful of all revolutions, the revolution of the individual, which, changing the conscience of men and of the generations, shall change also the false principle of government with which men are universally disgusted.-N. Y Observer. BETWEEN TWO FACTS. BY REV. SIDI H. BROWNE. One of these facts is, that, at the shortest, for the first two hundred years of the Christian era, the disciples of Christ did not and would not fight in carnal war. because they believed that war was utterly opposed to the spirit and practice of Christianity. The examples and teachings of Christ and his apostles formed a clear divine basis for this faith and practice of the primitive Christians. With all informed, fair minded men, there can be no doubt that the Peace doctrine as now, and for years past, advocated by the Quakers and some others, including the members of the South Carolina Peace Society and the Christian Neighbor, is the "faith once delivered to the saints," so far as fighting in carnal war is concerned. This fact-the anti-war faith and practice of the earlier disciples-stands in bold relief as the distinguishing feature of the religion of Christ and as peculiarity of his faithful followers in those days. Who that loves the truth will deny this fact? Who that has eyes can fail to see its correspondence with the divinely indited ensign, "On earth, peace; good will toward men ;" and, The weapons of our warfare are not carnal." a The two facts have been briefly stated. Now let them be removed sufficiently distant from each other to admit observers to stand between, and look on this fact and then on that. That the observers may have light, let a third fact stand between the two. The intermediate fact is this: The modern Christians have the same Prince and Saviour, the same law and gospel, and the same Holy Spirit that the primitive Christians had. Besides possessing in fulness this three-fold divine power, the modern disciples have the example of the primitive disciples as admonition," whereby they should profit above their earlier brethren. Can the observers believe that both of these facts, as they stand in awful contrast, were wrought with the approval of Christ, according to his gospel and in agreement with the Holy Spirit? Let the observers take time, compare fairly and fully, and when they are quite prepared and ready, let them (be it reverently written), without partiality for Christ or Peace men-without any undue leaning toward heaven-let them announce the result of their observations and reflections on the agreement or disagreement of these two facts-the greatest question of practical morality that has ever engaged the human mind, or that lies be tween the antagonistic forces of heaven and hell as they touch this world on the one side and on the other side contending for dominion. In the light of the word and Spirit of Christ, corroborated by the experience of the peace and love of Chri t in the soul, look once once more on these two facts. If they are both in agreement with Christianity, then is it not clear that Christ and Belial are in firm concord? If but one of the facts accords with Christ, then the other is of Satan; for Christ is not more diverse from Satan than one of these facts is at variance with the other. That which astonishes out of measure is, that preachers and professors of the religion of Christ can stand between these facis, and with avowed loyalty to the Prince of Peace, and in the light of his word and Spirit, teach and practise war! Dr. Woolsey wisely remarks:-" One of the most hopeful things to be said of these United States is that we are what we are, not chiefly by any forecast of our own, still less by any intention to form a great English speaking nation on this side of the water, but because historical causes which could not be foreseen, shaped and moulded us into a tolerably homogeneous and compact people. This is the only nation of civilized men of which it can be said that we passed through all the stages of our and political greatness, in a natural progress, so that what some life, from birth onward, through revolution to self-government call historical accident stand out, in our case most especially, to a man who sees a God in the world, as His guidance and purpose to make something good out of us: which purpose we can thwart, but one is filled with hope by believing that it is real." The other fact is, that, for the last two hundred years (not to go farther back) of the Christian era, the great body of the professed disciples of Christ, with few exceptions, have been de- According to Ex-Secretary McCulloch, who is one of the fenders and advocates of war, the same as other peoples and most reliable authorities in the world in the matter of finances, nations that profess no regard for Christ or his religion. And the present debt of France is twice that of the United States, according to these views, modern disciples of the Prince of and its growth has been, not during war but during peace, Peace have gone to war with each other and with "heathen" through the cost of the standing army. These standing armies nations, and have slaughtered and have been slaughtered by eat up the products of honest industry, and are the constant thousands upon thousands. Every land of Christendom has provocatives of those European wars which they are supposed been drenched with the blood of Christians shed by Christians! to guard against at such tremendous expenditure. What an And now, A. D. 1875, the members of the churches in Christen-economical world this will be when the sword is beaten into dom are ready, with their religion and religious teachers, to go ploughshares! |