The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-05-15
From the Christian Citizen.
The Christian Waiting for the millennium
in Arms.
FIRST IN WAR, LAST IN PEACE.

IA Arms
| FIRST IN WAR, LAST IN PEACE.
eve fear the time has not yet arrived
when our Navy can be dispensed with
When the long looked for Millennium shall
have arrlyed-when the lion and the
lamb shall lie down together, and there
shall be none TO modest or make US afraid
we may abolish our Navy with safely"
Thus speaks the Waldo Signal, and i,
speaks the language OF vast majority in
Christendom. We quote the expression
with the greatest Difference, but must dis.
sent entirely from the sentiment of the ex.
tract This editor 10 looking, as mos,
Christians are, for millennium for tina,
glorious time, when peace and good will
to men shall pervade the earth.
He regards our Navy as necessary
evil" to be dispensed with only when tina,
glorious day, long looked for by Christians,
shall have been ushered in.
We, too. are looking with anxious ewes
Tor this latter day glory of the Church OF
Christ. But what is the position in which,
even now. we find the Christian world :
Turn we which way soever we may, we
behold the Christian in arms prepared for
scenes Of butchery. Even now, he is
passing before our mind. clothed in battle
array, with the implements OF death, at
the music Of the drum. 10 the field of con
filct. He has made his vow, that 50 long
as there is one 10 modest or make him
afraid. he will not lay down his arms.
We turn our eye and another scene we
have iu view. A man of-war is in sie ht,
and. pacing the deck, is Christian soI>
der. His soul is painting for fight
And so it is throughout the wide extent OF
Christendom. In every direction, there
is all the preparation for war that may be
deemed needful in any emergency, whe,h,
er real or imaginary And the world is
looking on. The Pagan, the Mohanme.
dan and the Jew are witnesses of our ex-
trordinary proves, and matchless skill.
in the science of war. They behold US
in our conflict and turn away in astonish>
ment, remarking, chow these Christians
fight"
And, then. there comes upa voice from
the press and the pulpit too, saying, that
all this is necessary evil aud must be en-.
dured until the Millennium. In other words,
tina! the Christian must continue in arms
prepared Tor conflicts of blood, until our
enemies shall have laid down their weap-
ons, and become converted 10 the princi>
Piles of the religion of Christ. /" When
the lion and the lamb shall lie down to-
gether, and there shall be none to modest
or make US afraid We may abolish our
Navy with safety ives, and our Army
100, and our weapons Of defence may Be
all thrown TO the moles aud the bats, when
Christianity shall have subdued the fierce
anger OF the beasts of the forest, and i'm.
planted within the bosom of the Pagan
and the Iuidel a spirit Of kindness and
love.
The Christian must stand in arms, must
he2 until he shall have sough, in vain for
an enemy, or for aught that can moles, or
make him afraid, throughout the earth !;
and be the last of Inc family of man TO lay
aside his weapons of warfare, and the last
OF all animate beings to Danish from his
bosom spirit of revengeI Nay. Chris
lan reader, let not yourself b. thus de-
ceived, such doctrine is the Christians
bane. You are called of God to exempli.
fy in your life the pure and lovely princi-
pie of the Prince of Peace. The same du.
ties, and the same obligations OF kindness
and love, that will devolve upon mankind
in the Gay of the Millennium, are binding
upon you nov. And it is the privilege OF
to enjoy, even now, that peace
which they expect is destined To- reign
the earth.
But the position OF Christians must be
reversed. They must be first. and not
last, to exhibit the principles o.! Chrstiani-
". 1t is most direfuI delusion, that The
Christian must be the last in arms,-the
very last, TO Law down his weapons of war
fare. Christian nations have but TO in.
scribe on their banners "Peace on earth
and good will 10 man," and wars will
cease upon the earth. Let our war-ships
be converted into merchant vessels and our
army be abolished let our soldiers return
10 their farms and their workshops, and
we may soon expect to find ourselves in
the mids, of the new heavens and the new
earth. =. w.
TORREY BEAT-UNDERGRoU RAIL
RoAD surERsEDLD.-The Baltimore Sun
relates an exploit in slave moving which
beats Torrey Emanc,patOr.
New mode of human transportati0n.---
Information was yesterday received 10
.own of negro servem girl, belonging to
Mr. Benz Ross, who has been missing for
some time. 1t appears from the facts
which have transpired, that she had been
safely delivered in York, Pa, as per in
voice, snugy packed away IN good size
box adapted 10 her dimensions This is
an entirely novel style o: ObducIing slaves.
we apprehend, and may serve as eau
ion to common carriers, as the same svs-