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[Dr. Arnold]Source: Advocate of Peace (1847-1884), New Series, Vol. 2, No. 15 (MARCH 15, 1870), p. 216Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27904639 .

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THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. Makoh, 1870.

SPECIAL NOTICE. On account of the protracted indisposition of Rev. Dr.

Beckwith, the general Secretary of the American Peace

Society, the Secretary for the Western department is now

spending some time in New England, but will give atten tion to the interests of the Peace Cause in the West, as

heretofore. Correspondents will therefore please address

him, for the present, at No. 40 Winter Street, Boston.

PLEA WITH MINISTERS FOR THE CAUSE OF PEACE.

An octavo pamphlet of 16 pages, with the above title, has recently been issued by the American Peace Society. It shows the reliance of the Cause of Peace on Christian Ministers?that it is part of the Gospel?that it is auxil iary to the work of the Ministry?their ability to promote it?how they may doit?the views of prominent ministers on the subject, and replies to some objections. It is writ ten with eminent ability, and contains facts, arguments and

appeals which are irresistible. Realizing how much this cause, like every other good one,

depends upon Ministers, it has been decided to send one of these pamphlets free to every one in the United States, so far as we can get their address, and the means to do so, with the hope that it will incite them to preach on the I Cause and make other efforts for its promotion. The 1 " Friends'Peace Association" assume the supply of those in the Middle and Southern States with Ohio and Indiana, and the American Peace Society those in New England and the West. Some other publications on Peace and War will be enclosed with this pamphlet Those in New England who fail to receive these publications and desire them, can address Rev. Geo. C. Beckwith, D. D., Sec'y Am. Peace

Society, No. 40 Winter Street, Boston; those in the Middle and Southern States, Mr. Daniel Hill, Sec'y of the Friends' Peace Association, at New Vienna, Ohio, and those in others, Rev. A. Lord, Western Sec'y of the A. P. S., at 45 Madison St, Chicago. We will also send packages of Peace tracts free to any one?minister or layman, male or

female, who wishes to read and distribute them, and does not wish to pay for them at the rate of 1000 pages for one dollar.

There are some 60,000 or 60,000 Ministers in theU. S., and to supply them all with the ?* Plea.

" including pos

tage, etc., will cost several thousand dollars. One friend of the Cause has given $100 for the purpose ; another, $50, and others additional sums. But not one quarter of the necessary amount is yet secured ; and persons who wish to contribute for this or any other department of the work of the Societies named, can address their Secretaries as above.

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PEACE SOCIETIES.

The American Peace Society organized in 1828 hae re cently greatly extended its operations especially at the

West and South, and will do so still farther if means can be secured for the purpose. The Friends' Peace Associa tion organized in 1866 has since then been very active. It has several able lecturers in the field, and is sending out 100,000 pages or more of peace matter every month. The

Universal Peace Union?a new organization, with head

quarters at Philadelphia, and with a radical platform, which embraces some other objects, is also working dili gently for the correction of public sentiment in relation to war. In England, the London Peace Society, which has been in existence since 1816, is still prosecuting its work,

and exerting a powerful influence on public sentiment. Its Secretary, Henry Richard, M. P., has recently visited pro minent men connected with several European governments, with a view to secure the reduction of the immense standing armies with which these governments defy each other and provoke war, and has met with encouraging success. Jn France, the International League of Peace at Paris, and the Peace League at Havre are each waging

*' war against war," and no future Napoleon will be able to sacrifico millions of Frenchmen to his mad ambition.

The object of ail these societies is to prevent war?one of the most direful calamities that ever afflicted the world. This they hope to do by showing that it is irrational, inhu man, unchristian and unnecessary, and that there are

better methods of settling national difficulties, such as mutual forbearance, negotiations, arbitration, and a Con

gress of Nations. To acomplish these objects, they publish and circulate books, tracts and papers i-employ lecturers and colporteurs?enlist ministers, Editors and Teachers in the work, and by various methods, endeavor to intensify the feeling in favor of peace, and make it so strong that the

people will not let their rulers plunge them into war for

slight causes. The American Peace Society wishes to employ Agents and

Colporteurs?traveling and local, male and female, in every State, county and township in the Union. Also to furnish some one in every neighborhood with a few of its tracts to circulate, which will be sent free to those who are not dis

posed to pay for them at the rate of 1,000 pages for $ 1 00.

Applicants can address the Secretaries of the American Peace Society, at 40 Winter Street, Boston, and 45 Madison Street, Chicago, or Daniel Hill, Secretary of the Friends' Peace Association, at New Vienna, Ohio. L. I_

Incident , the late Spanish Revolution.? A

touching incident of the battle of Alcolea is related. For some minutes an insurgent regiment, and one of the

royalist army were exchanging shots at a distance so short that they could easily discern the countenances of their

antagonists. Soon after the firing commenced, a young revolutionary soldier noticed that he was being covered by the rifle of one of the enemy, and perceived that it was his own brother. Throwing up his arms, he exclaimed in

Spanish, " Oh, Frank, do not fire ! " The royalist, aston

ished at hearing his name thus called out, was not slow to

recognize his brother, and the two ladsf rushing into ̂ each others arms, embraced between the lines of the hostile armies. At this moment, unfortunately, a bullet, intended for some one else, passed through the head of the royalist, and he was saved from the commission of fratricide, only to

expire in his brother's arms. _

Sir David Brewsxer says, " Nothing in the history of

this species appears more inexplicable than that war, the child of barbarism, should exist in an age enlightened and civilized. But it is more inexplicable still, that war should exist where Christianity has for nearly 2,000 years been shedding its gentle light, and that it should be de fended by arguments drawn from the Scriptures themselves.

Dr. Arnold says, " Could there by any possibility

have been another war in the world, if we had accepted the mercies given us ?... .The Sermon on the Mount cannot be read by any good man without the strongest feeling of shame and humiliation, for the contrast between the picture of Christian principles there drawn, and the reality he sees around him

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