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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 ten cents postage. It is a book of 124 octavo pages. Its retail price 50 cents. Address all your orders to Rev. H. C. Dunham, No. 1 Somerset St., Boston.

CHARLES SUMNER ON PEACE AND WAR. THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS and the WAR-SYSTEM OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS bound in one volume, will be sent postage paid on receipt of $1.00, by addressing Rev. H C. Dunham, 1 Somerset street, Boston.

We have but a limited supply of these great orations of the great Senator, who was a "tower of strength" in our noble cause, and believe there are many who will be glad to receive a copy on the above terms.

AN APPEAL TO CHRISTIANS,

INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY, ON BEHALF OF THE CAUSE OF PEACE.

It is well known to our Christian brethren that the Religious Society of Friends has ever believed that all war is entirely forbidden by the Gospel, and that, in accordance with that belief, its members have as a rule, refrained from taking any part in carnal warfare; and for refusing to comply with military requisitions, or to pay fines for thus refusing, many "in years past, have suffered distraint of goods to large amounts, and not a few have been imprisoned. Beside a passive testiriony thus borne by members individually, the Society has, from time to time, issued its public protest against this heathen and wicked custom.

Believing that it is only by a full and proper application of the Gospel in the affairs of nations, as well as individuals, that the prophecies in regard to war will be fulfilled; and believing, as a branch of the church which has so long seen the true character of this heathen abomination, that we were not doing all that we should do toward enlightening our brethren on this important subject, most of the Yearly Meetings of Friends have united in the organization of "The Peace Association of Friends in America," to which is delegated this important work, with instructions to labor expressly on their behalf in the more general promotion of the cause of peace.

The Association, in the fulfilment of its trust, has thus far mostly confined its labors to the printing and circulation of books and tracts, and the publication of a monthly paper called the Messenger of Peace. During the few years of its existence, millions of pages have been distributed far and wide, and many acknowledgments have been received of the convincing effects of the truth therein inculcated.

The attitude of millions in the prime of manhood, now kept constantly armed and equipped for mutual slaughter by the nations of Europe, and the sudden uprising of the war spirit in our midst, convince us of the necessity of further and more direct efforts to arouse and awaken the public to a clearer appreciation of the true character of this monstrous evil. If it is only by the full application of the Gospel that war can be abolished, surely it is the duty of the church to labor for its proper application.

But, in view of the apathy that so generally prevails, we feel constrained to appeal directly to our Christian brethren, individually and collectively, earnestly entreating them to take this subject into prayerful consideration in all its bearings. Can we believe that if the members of the Christian church everywhere were entirely to refrain from taking part in carnal warfare, that professedly Christian nations could any longer continue the custom? If we believe this, we must also believe that the responsibility for the continuance of war rests upon the church. Dear fellow professors, can you rest satisfied in continuing to bear the weight of this awful responsibility?

While statesmen and publicists are laboring to relieve suffer-ing humanity from the blight of this dreadful curse, the church of Christ remains silent. Surely it is time for it to arise from its slumber and to proclaim its supremacy! Is not eighteen hundred years long enough for its white robes, which should be pure and spotless, to have been stained in blood? Must the skirts of the visible church be longer polluted with the gore of widow? While war, as has been said, seems to aim at setting the battlefield, and stained with the tears of the orphan and the up the kingdom of Satan in the earth, alas! the church remains to be its very bulwark.

Surely it is time to wipe out this reproach against Him, at whose coming into the world, peace on earth and good will to men was proclaimed, and engage in this holy warfare against the supremacy of Satan's kingdom.

Therefore, in behalf of suffering humanity, and in behalf of the cause of the blessed Prince of Peace, whose mission on earth is not fulfilled while wars continue-in true Christian love, we again entreat you to give this subject the consideration it justly merits.

On behalf and by direction of the Peace Association of Friends in America.

ROBERT L. MURRAY, President, New York. DANIEL HILL, Secretary, New Vienna, Ohio. MURRAY SHIPLEY, Treasurer, Cincinnati, Ohio. New Vienna, Ohio, First mo. 1, 1874.

THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE.

Published the first of every month by the American Peace Society.
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HOWARD MALCOM, D. D., Philadelphia, Penn.
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ELIHU BURRITT, Esq., New Britain, Conn.
REV. J. H. BAYLISS, Chicago, Ill.

ABEL STEVENS, LL. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.
JULIA WARD Howe, Boston, Mass.

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During the year 1875, a series of articles by Dr. J. T. Payne on "CHRISTIAN AND BENEVOLENT WORK IN BOSTON," will be contributed. Other features and new writers have been engaged, and every effort will be made to make this Monthly what it has been, one of the best of the low-priced magazines. It will hereafter have illustrations each mouth. The January number is sent out in a new cover, new type has been selected, and every department has been improved. AGENTS ARE WANTED in every town and county in the States. Subscription price $1.25 per annum. Address (en. closing stamp), THE HOME GUARDIAN, No. 6 Oak Place, Boston, Mass.

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We present above a specimen of a new pictorial envelope, which we are sure will be regarded as one of the most beautiful and expressive things of the kind.

The Society has now four kinds of envelopes, three pictorial, and one other containing brief paragraphs in relation to war and the object of Peace Societies. They are not only envelopes, but peace tracts in miniature, and their use will promote the Cause perhaps a hundred or a thousand miles away. The price of these envelopes has been reduced to 15 cents a package, 50 cents a hundred, $ 1.00 for two hundred and fifty, and $3.00 per thousand. Being so cheap, and what almost every one has to purchase somewhere, we are selling thousands every week, and those who buy them are sending these messages of

Peace all over the Continent.

THE MESSENGER OF PEACE

is published monthly by the Secretary of the "Peace Association of Friends in America." It is filled with facts and arguments to prove that war is unchristian, inhuman and unnecessary That if men and women of intelligence were as anxious to find remedy as they are to find an apology for war, this self-imposed scourge of our race would soon be banished from the civilized world. Idvocates the brotherhood of mankind, and that we cannot injure another without injuring ourselves. Terms, 50 cents per annum, in advance, or 5 copies sent to one address or $2. Free to ministers of the Gospel of all denominations ho will read it and recommend it to their congregations. Also, a well-selected stock of peace publications, both for adults and children.

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DANIEL HILL,

New Vienna, Clinton County, Ohio.

"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 pos sessed adequate means. We think it deserves, as it certainly needs, a large increase of funds. The American Peace Society, charged 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. Miner, D. D., Pres't Tufts College, Boston, Mass

Hon. Wm. A. Buckingham, Ex-Gov. of Conn.

Luke Hitchcock, D. D., Cincinnati, 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.
John V. Farwell, Chicago, Ill.

Hon. Wm. R. Marshall, Ex-Gov. of Minn.

Hon. James Harlan, U. S. Senator, Iowa.

Rev. P. Akers, D. D., Jacksonville, Ill.

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 ton.

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, NS

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.
Samuel Willetts, New York.

Joseph A. Dugdale, Iowa.

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn, NY.

GOVERNORS

SIDNEY PERHAM, Governor of Maine.
JULIUS CONVERSE, Governor of Vermont.
SETH PADELFORD, Governor of Rhode Island.
ISRAEL WASHBURNE, JR., Ex Gov. of Maine.
S. J. KIRKWOOD, Governor of Iowa.
JOHN T. HOFFMAN, Governor of New York.
JOHN W. GEARY, Governor of Pennsylvania.
E. F. NOYES, Governor of Ohio.

C. C CARPENTER, Governor of lowa

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. WILLIAM B. WASHBURN, Boston.
DANIEL S TALCOTT, D.D., Bangor, Me.
HON. JOHN JAY, New York City.

ANDREW P. PEABODY, D.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Mass.
HON. ALEXANDER H. RICE, Boston.

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.
TUTHILL KING, Chicago, Ill.

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.

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.
THOMAS GAFFIELD, ESQ, Boston,

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,

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.
ALBERT TOLMAN, Esq., Worcester, Mass.

HON. C. W. GODDARD, Portland, Me.

HON. ALPHEUS HARDY, Boston.

DANIEL S. TALCOTT, D. D., Bangor, Me.
REV. S. HOPKINS EMERY, Bridgeport, Conn.

A. S. MORSE, Esq., Charlestown, Mass.
HON. D. K. HITCHCOCK, Newton.
REV. B. K. PIERCE, D. D., Boston.
HON. H. P. HAVEN, New London, Conn.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

H. H. LEAVITT, Esq., Boston.
WM. M. CORNELL, D.D, Boston.
REV. WM. P. TILDEN, 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, Corresponding Secretary.
REV. H. C. DUNHAM, Recording Secretary.
REV. DAVID PATTEN, D. D., Treasurer.

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ON EARTH PEACE.

A GOOD EXAMPLE IN SIR ISAAC NEWTON. Dr. Gregory, professor at Oxford, having received from his father for examination, the model of an invention for rendering the operations of artillery more destructive, exhibited it to Sir Isaac Newton to obtain his opinion of it.

"Sir Isaac was much displeased with it, saying, that if it tended as much to the preservation of mankind as to their destruction, the inventor would have deserved a great reward; but as it was contrived solely for destruction, and would soon be known to the enemy, he rather deserved to be punishedand urged the Professor very strongly to destroy it, and if possible to suppress the invention."

THE CENTENNIAL.

As you all know, the period of our national existence is almost precisely coeval with that which has witnessed the astounding material achievements that distinguish the present epoch from all other ages of the world. Nor, happily, are these confined to material developments. These indeed tend toward human amelioration, but far nobler results are seen in the fraternization of the nations and the hastening of the long-promised era of good will among men. It cannot but swell the heart of every lover of his country to reflect how nearly true it is that the history of the first century of our national existence is substantially the history of the last century of civilization itself. Perhaps the most auspicious signs of the period in which we live are the evidences everywhere afforded, that material, moral, religious and social development all tend toward the same beneficent end. The age which ribs continents with facilities for locomotion, cheapens the means of personal comfort, multiplies the endless appliances of art, and promotes the blessings of universal education is also the age that has shortened the ocean transit, caused nations to clasp hands in magnetic intercourse, and is making the whole world akin. The age of steam, of magnetism, of marvellous chemical triumphs-the age in which the rude forces of nature have been made to contribute so much to the comfort, convenience and pleasure of man, is also the age which has witnessed the liberation and enfranchisement of chattelized races, reaffirmed

This was probably done, as nothing more was ever heard of it. How admirable was this decision of Newton. The invention of Artillery was by Erasmus imputed to the devil; but as men are found bad enough to take delight in using these engines of destruction, we need not reproach the devil as the inventor. But if it could be shown that he was the inventor, this would not prove him to be a more depraved being than those who voluntarily make war, and employ his invention for murdering their own species.

The distinguished Frenchman, Edward Laboulaye, says that he feels a deep interest in the "Codification of International Law," as a measure which, if carried out, would secure the peace of the world.