and if not act before long the faith the people * hristinnify and in righteousness will have vanished, and darkness and ruin have spread themselves over all the carta. In war the. present occasion our nation -1 < 'I I 1 11 ri-t a chance, had lulls conn hot her it Wel V ell

it- arms and tiu-t it- eau-e to the reason ot tile civilised world, one cannot say. Hut tins J am absolutely convinced, that It do that It would succeed 111 its object and thereby achieve the mo-t wonderful vietorv the realm of human conduct that has been witnessed since * hrist

and thee hogin live in the spirit, and to think less ~i the hod\ and tiling's carnal' The rewards of for ohedh'tiec to llis laws are lon'_'er phvsjc.a! and material, hut spiritual. The (iod of I',attics dies, and in his stead 'Uiies One win- delights not II) battle, not* even 11

William Perm told the natives that and his people never fired a rifle or U6ed a sword ; that they meant no harm and had fears. the treaty friendship itselt, it was declared that the lied Men and the White Men should all brothers; that all the paths should free; the doors of the

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testation and demands of the spiritual. For once the beauty and sacredness of human personality have been recognised, the laws and conditions of human well-being discovered, war becomes evil and inhuman and a sign of retrogression. So that while to the semi-barbarian, with his s

science; uliich ■ ii, t:i!s lli.it lived, under til. >T! 11' 11 iii • lunch, unci

hut if there ho evil, recalcitrant element society, t hero can la' need for iinn - resist aiice. The teach i ii" o ('iirist lanity that Ininian nature heine what, it is, ever i c-.|m ae,; to true r«mrii»c, to real nohility spirit and character, the principle of non-resistance is

that thr success .«r practicability of non-resistance docs not depend upon the moral condition of the people towards whom it is manifested, but essentially upon the moral condition, the faith and the courage those who profess to helieve in it. savape, for instance, would never c

the condition of life in one age the condition ot and death in a later age. Customs are to the spirit what clothing is the body; and mankind wears out and out-grows the former just as it does (he Latter. Thus vital and important as the past is, it is not nearly vital and importa