Rev. B. Haines and wife.... RHODE ISLAND. 3 00 NEW PROVIDENCE, 5 00 200 OLATHE. Linæus Roberts..... $20 00 25 00 50 00 100 00 25 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 10.00 50 00 10 00 100 00 100 00 20 00 issued its public protest against this heathen and wicked custom. But while we have cause to feel thankful for the amelioration of military laws, whereby our members are now generally exempt from suffering, we are pained in knowing that war, with all its horrors, is yet allowed and practiced by all the Christian nations, and sanctioned by the larger portions of the Christian Church. As Christians, we all believe in the fulfillment of prophecy. Dr. Chalmers, more than fifty years ago, testified that "the mere existence of this prophecy of peace is a sentence of condemnation upon war, and stamps a criminality on its very forehead. So soon as Christianity shall gain a full ascendency in the world, from that moment war is to disappear." 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 25 00 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. 5 00 2.00 The Association, in the fulfillment 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 200 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. 10 00 5.00 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 appie500 ciation 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 5 00 application. 200 1 00 But, in view of the apathy that so generally prevails, we feel constrained to appeal directly to our Christian brethren, indi100 vidually 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 every100 where 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? I 00 KANSAS. 4.00 While statesmen and publicists are laboring to relieve suffering 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 the battlefield, and stained with the tears of the orphan and the widow? While war, as has been said, seems to aim at setting up the kingdom of Satan in the earth, alas! the church remains $3,093 80 to be its very bulwark. 2 00 5 00 87 50 INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY, ON BEHALF OF THE CAUSE 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 testimony thus borne by members individually, the Society has, from time to time 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. Address American Peace Society, Boston, sent by mail 25 for 15 cents, 100 for 50 cents, 250 for $1.00, 1000 for $3.00. Use them. 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 a 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. It advocates 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 for $2. Free to ministers of the Gospel of all denomi nations who will read it and recommend it to their congregafor adults and children. Corner of Shawmut Avenue and Indiana Place, tions. Also, a well-selected stock of peace publications, both (Opposite Morgan's Chapel,) BOSTON 6201.1 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY More. THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. The Great Cause Marching On........ International Code Committee.... 49 Hymn on Peace.. 50 ANGEL OF PEACK. Elihu Burritt on Mr. Richard and Mr. Sumner. 50 Come, Dove of Peace. 1 51 ....... Pleas for Peace... 51 A Curious Incident in Charles Sumner's Life.. 1 "The Gospel of Despair ". 52 A Little Child shall Lead Them."........... Worth the Cost... 53 The Coach and the Milestone.. 2 Receipts for May.. 2 An Appeal to Christians 2 Membership 2 Charles Sumner on Peace and War. 3 Editorial Contributors... 4 Peace Society's Envelope.. 4 The Messenger of Peace. Page. 1 1 33333223 recently adopted by Congress suggest. The 21st article of the treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo contains the following declarations: The resolutions adopted by the lower house of Congress, just before its adjournment, in favor of international arbitration, Article XXI. If unhappily any disagreement should hereafter arise between the governments of the two republics, declared that "the people of the United States are devoted to whether with respect to the interpretation of any stipulation in the policy of peace." It was a noble eulogy, and not unde- this treaty, or with respect to any other particular concerning served. Mr. Webster declared the policy of the United States the political or commercial relations of the two nations, the to be a 66 peace policy," and when Secretary of State he said governments, in the name of those nations, do promise gave to each other that they will endeavor in the most sincere and the most satisfactory evidence of his determination to make his earnest manner to settle the differences so arising, and to prewords good, by proposing arbitration for the settlement of a serve the state of peace and friendship in which the two counlong-vexed question between the United States and Portugal. tries are now placing themselves; using for this end mutual And if by these Our newly appointed minister to Germany, Mr. J. C. B. representations and pacific negotiations. means they should not be enabled to come to an agreement, a Davis, has just prepared with much labor a " Register of the resort shall not on this account be had to reprisals, aggression, Department of State," which contains a full list of the in- or hostility of any kind, by the one republic against the other, ternational arbitrations in which our government has been a until the government of that which deems itself aggrieved shall party. To the honor of the country it may be said, they are have maturely considered, in the spirit of peace and good twenty-four in number, and many of them are cases of much neighborship, whether it would not be better that such differences should be settled by the arbitration of commissioners apcomplication and difficulty. The first upon the list was as pointed on each side, or by that of a friendly nation. early as November 19, 1794, under the treaty of amity between should such course be proposed by either party it shall be acthe United States and Great Britain, and the last was as re- ceded to by the other, unless deemed by it altogether incompatcent as October 6, 1873. Also twelve commissions of tribu-ible with the nature of the difference, or the circumstances of nals not international in their character have been organized under United States Laws (but in accordance with provisions of We trust the day is not distant when such a provision will treaties), for adjusting upon claims. The Hon. Robert C. be incorporated into all our treaties with other nations, and will Winthrop, in 1845, while the Oregon controversy was pending, be ingrafted permanently upon our foreign policy. The late offered in the House of Representatives a series of resolutions, Mr. Sumner read in the senate in the session of 1872 resolutions embodying substantially the same sentiments as those now passed, and it was his purpose to ask the senate to adopt them at this session. Thus, although the man dies, his work goes one of which was as follows: the case. Resolved, That if no other mode for the amicable adjustment of this question remains, it is due to the principles of civilization and Christianity that a resort to arbitration should on. be had; and that this government cannot relieve itself from all responsibility which may follow the failure to settle the controversy while this resort is still untried. And THE APOSTLE OF PEACE.-Memoir of William Ladd.-By John Hemmenway.-A most remarkable book of one of the In the excited state of feeling that then prevailed the resolu- greatest and best men that ever lived, well spiced with anecdotes, tion failed of adoption, and the administration of President will be read with lively interest by the old and the young, and Polk declined the overtures for arbitration upon the question, should be in every family and Sunday school in the land. This which were soon after made to them by the British government. contains about 300 pages, with a fine likeness of Mr. Ladd. But we are happy to say that to President Polk's administration Substantially bound in muslin, $1.00. Will be sent by mail, belongs the great honor of incorporating into the treaty of postage paid, on reception of the price. peace with Mexico the precise idea which the resolutions Dunham, No. Somerset St., Boston. Address Rev. H. C. PRESIDENT. HON. EDWARD S. TOBEY, or Boston. HONORARY PRESIDENT. 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, 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. 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'uon. 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, N. Y. GOVERNORS. SIDNEY PERHAM, Governor of Maine. C. C. CARPENTER, Governor of lows. HOWARD MALCOM, D.D. LL.D. VICE-PRESIDENTS. HON. GERRITT SMITH, Peterborough, N. Y. ANDREW P. PEABODY, D.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Mass. JOHN G. WHITTER, A. M. Amesbury, Mass. D. C. SCOFIELD, Esq, Elgin, Ill. MYRON PHELPS, Esq., Lewiston, Ill. Gov. CONRAD BAKER, Indianapolis, Ind. BISHOP THOMAS A. MORRIS, Springfield, Ohio. 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. 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. DIRECTORS. HON. AMASA WALKER, North Brookfield, Mass. REV. L. H. ANGIER, Everett, Mass. JOHN FIELD, Esq., Boston, H. H. LEAVITT, ESQ., 66 66 SAMUEL RODMAN, New Bedford, Mass. THOMAS GAFFIELD, ESQ., Boston, Mass. JUDGE MAY, Lewiston, Me. 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. PHILLIP BROOKS, Boston, Mass. REV. G. N. BOARDMAN, D. D., Chicago, Ill. HIRAM HADLEY, Esq., Chicago, Ill. T. B. COOLEDGE, ESQ,, Lawrence, Mass. JAY COOKE, Esq., Phila., Pa, SAMUEL WILLETTS, ESQ., N. Y. HON. EDWARD LAWRENCE, Charlestown, Mass. HON. C. W. GODDARD, Portland, Me. ALPHEUS HARDY, Esq., Boston. DANIEL PALMER, ESQ., Charlestown, Mass. A. S. MORSE, Esq., Charlestown, Mass. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. H. H. LEAVITT, ESQ., Boston. HON. G. WASHINGTON WARREN, Boston. JOHN CUMMINGS, Esq., Boston. HON. C. T. RUSSELL, Cambridge. S. D. WARREN, Esq, Boston. WALTER HASTINGS, ESQ., Boston. REV. JOHN W. OLMSTEAD, D. D., Boston. REV. S. E HERRICK, Boston. REV. JAMES B. MILES, Cor. Sec., and Asst. Treasurer. REV. H. C. DUNHAM, Recording Secretary. REV. DAVID PATTEN, D. D., Treasurer. "Cam Bridge. (M. S. Voi D. 15, 7, 9–12.) THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE. THE GREAT CAUSE MARCHING ON. "Glory to God in the highest, on earth, peace, good will to men." On that memorable anniversary, the Seventeenth of June, the House of Representatives of the United States of America, adopted unanimously and without debate, noble resolutions in condemnation of war and in favor of arbitration, and we are happy to add on the twenty-fifth the Senate unanimously concurred. The moral effect of this grand declaration made in the name of the American people will be very great and very salutary all over the world. We do not believe another act of Congress more than this will promote the honor of our country or the welfare of mankind. It is most gratifying to observe how universally and heartily it is approved and applauded by the people of all political parties and religious creeds. We fill this number of our paper largely with comments of the press upon this action. Great Britain, Italy, Sweden and America have all taken a noble stand. May the other nations speedily follow their example. It may interest our readers to see the declarations of the different legislative bodies brought together. They are as follows: By the British House of Commons, adopted July 8, 1873, by a majority of ten votes. That an humble address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to instruct her principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to enter into communication with foreign powers with a view to the further improvement of international law, and the establishment of a general and permanent system of international arbitration. By the Chamber of Deputies at Rome, adopted November 23,1873, unanimously and by a rising vote. The Chamber expresses the wish that the government of the King in its relations with foreign powers should employ itself in rendering arbitration an acceptable and frequent means of resolving, according to justice, international differences, in matters which are susceptible of it; that it proposes to introduce into the stipulation of treaties, when circumstances will permit it, a clause for referring to arbitrators the questions which may arise in the interpretation and execution of these treaties; and that it wishes to persevere in the excellent initiative which it has assumed for several years, of calling conventions among civilized nations, for rendering the essential rules of private in ternational law uniform and obligatory in the intercourse of the different nations. VOL. V. No. 7. blessings and hoping for its permanence and its universal adoption, hereby, through their representatives in Congress, recommend such arbitration as a national substitute for war, and they further recommend to the treaty-making powers of the government, to provide if practicable that hereafter in the treaties made between the United States and foreign powers war shall not be declared by either of the contracting parties against the other until efforts have been made to adjust all alleged causes of difficulty by impartial arbitration. From an article in the Boston Traveller upon this subject, we extract the following: This action is most timely and important, and it will be received by all the American people, irrespective of religious or political creed, with unqualified approbation. It is action in the interests of justice, humanity and religion, in which all parties are equally interested and to which all parties and sects are prepared to do homage. who are devoting themselves to the work of securing arbitration It can but be especially gratifying and encouraging to those as a substitute for war in adjusting the difficulties of nations. It is one of the best tributes that could be paid to Mr. Sumner, for it carries into effect a measure which he may be said to have originated, and gives a new impulse to the cause so near to his heart. Our readers are aware that resolutions of similar purport, moved by Henry Richard, were adopted by the British House of Commons last July, and that the Chamber of Deputies, at Rome, in November last, on the motion of Signor Mancini, unanimously voted in favor of substantially the same measure. Thus, notwithstanding the adverse appearances, hopeful signs of progress are apparent, and it is evident" the world moves." against war and in favor of arbitration, will make a deep imThis unanimous and forcible declaration by our Congress pression upon European countries. It will greatly strengthen the hands and encourage the hearts of those who are striving to arrest the terrible rivalry in armaments, which, it must be admitted, is now the greatest curse and calamity of Europe, and will exert a powerful influence upon other governments, inclining them to the same action. It will tend very much to help forward the international conference for the codification of international law as a basis of a permanent and universal system of arbitration, which was inaugurated at Brussels last year, and which is to meet at about two months from this time at Geneva. An eminent French publicist has recently said, "An international law and tribunal by which the differences of nations may be settled peaceably is the great and imperative demand of the age." With this sentiment public opinion all over the civilized world is fast coming into accord. For until this demand shall be met the nations will be compelled to continue to increase their armaments which have already become a burden that is By the House of Representatives of the United States, June well-nigh crushing them. May the legislative bodies of all 17, 1874, passed unanimously and without debate. Whereas war is at all times destructive of the material interests of a people, demoralizing in its tendencies, and at variance with an enlightened public sentiment, and Whereas the difference between nations should in the interests of humanity and fraternity be adjusted if possible by international arbitration, therefore, Resolved, That the people of the United States, being devoted to the policy of peace with all mankind, enjoying its nations soon follow the noble example of Great Britain, Italy and America. The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at its late session held in Louisville, adopted resolutions approving arbitration between nations, in preference to the sword, as a mode of settling disputes, and of sympathy with whatever tends to make the kingdoms of this world to become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ. |