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Our principles are known; and for the defence and props gation of these principles, we shall plant ourselves upon the word of God, and call upon the community to look at the sub ject in the light which beams from his throne. We believe the time has fully come for a direct, earnest, decisive appeal to the law and to the testimony and to this test we would bring the great questions involved in our cause, and keep the public mind grappled to the subject until its main points are all settled in accordance with the Christian's only standard of truth and duty.
It must come to this; and the sooner, the better. Here is the hinge of the whole subject. It is with us a question notso much of policy as of. Cmscierrce. It is a branch of our religion. It belongs to the higher ethicsof Christianity. The argument from expediency is very strong; but the argument from Christian duty is irresistible. Here is the pivot of this cause. If peace be not an enterprise strictly evangelical, its principles a part of the gospel, its duties an element of our religion, essential to the full and perfect development of Chris tian character, we are prepared to abandon it forthwith for work more appropriate to our high and holy calling; but, if it is, then must we insist upon restoring this long lost pleiad to the primitive constellation of Christian graces, and press upon every follower of Christ the obligation of cultivating this grace, and laboring to render peace, just as he does repentance and faith, (to-extensive with the prevalence of Christianity itself. We shall not overlook other views of this subject; but what ever rays of light may come from reason or history, we would concentrate in this grand focus of our cause. We wish to look at war as the apostles did, as Jesus Christ himself did, as a God of infinite purity and love still regards it. We would hold it up before the mirror of the gospel, and reflect upon the whole community a just and startling image of its guilt as a mass of abominations in the sight of God. If he has legalized, in any case, its arts and intrigues, its falsehoods and deceptious, its pollutions and cruelties, its atrocities and horrors, its ferocious outrages upon the dearest rights and interests of mankind, its reckless trampling on all the laws of earth and heaven, its glaring contradictions of the spirit and precepts of the New Testament, we will relinquish our ground; but, if not, we shall call upon the Christian, as he reveres God, or loves man, to rally beneath the stainless banners of peace, and take his stand upon the everlasting gospel against this legalized system of vice, and crime, and wholesale mischief.
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Our principles are known; and for the defence and props gation of these principles, we shall plant ourselves upon the word of God, and call upon the community to look at the sub ject in the light which beams from his throne. We believe the time has fully come for a direct, earnest, decisive appeal to the law and to the testimony and to this test we would bring the great questions involved in our cause, and keep the public mind grappled to the subject until its main points are all settled in accordance with the Christian's only standard of truth and duty.
It must come to this; and the sooner, the better. Here is the hinge of the whole subject. It is with us a question notso much of policy as of. Cmscierrce. It is a branch of our religion. It belongs to the higher ethicsof Christianity. The argument from expediency is very strong; but the argument from Christian duty is irresistible. Here is the pivot of this cause. If peace be not an enterprise strictly evangelical, its principles a part of the gospel, its duties an element of our religion, essential to the full and perfect development of Chris tian character, we are prepared to abandon it forthwith for work more appropriate to our high and holy calling; but, if it is, then must we insist upon restoring this long lost pleiad to the primitive constellation of Christian graces, and press upon every follower of Christ the obligation of cultivating this grace, and laboring to render peace, just as he does repentance and faith, (to-extensive with the prevalence of Christianity itself. We shall not overlook other views of this subject; but what ever rays of light may come from reason or history, we would concentrate in this grand focus of our cause. We wish to look at war as the apostles did, as Jesus Christ himself did, as a God of infinite purity and love still regards it. We would hold it up before the mirror of the gospel, and reflect upon the whole community a just and startling image of its guilt as a mass of abominations in the sight of God. If he has legalized, in any case, its arts and intrigues, its falsehoods and deceptious, its pollutions and cruelties, its atrocities and horrors, its ferocious outrages upon the dearest rights and interests of mankind, its reckless trampling on all the laws of earth and heaven, its glaring contradictions of the spirit and precepts of the New Testament, we will relinquish our ground; but, if not, we shall call upon the Christian, as he reveres God, or loves man, to rally beneath the stainless banners of peace, and take his stand upon the everlasting gospel against this legalized system of vice, and crime, and wholesale mischief.
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