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these had attained that status OF Christian maunood
| that could feel toward enormous and alpable
aud -clfeyident evil Jesus would feel toward it
were he alive and an American to-day--if eome two
or three millions Of men and women among US were
charged full Of tbis moral power which religion
develops-beart conscience, soul, filled with II to
overfos ing--will moved and swayed and red by it.
we sbonld not be plunged IN the gull of civil
day. Toat leaven Of goodness would leayen the
wi ole lump VI the nstion. The coptinent would
feel the virtue. The ten righteous would the
! city, The atmosphere always tends TO equilibrium.
SO doss goodness the atmosphere Of the moral world
IL woul be ab,olhrly impossible for Slavery with all
It's attendaat barbaism TO hJursn in one part OF
conntry-for dueng 10 be held in honOr lbIe esteem
for men and women 70 be wbippedtO death and burned
the sake when in another oftion OF the country
the Chrisiln Spii, beat high, and tie Christian he
ran strong and pure in the hearts and veins OF mihon
or two of men. As easily might empty cloud cone
In contact wi charged'wiih el. etucy without
dravug iuto itself its fiery cnrrent Though this mn
tude OF CHRISTIANS Ii teda fngerand neversroKe
O word, they would create an atmosphere Ia wnich
euh euormies could not live an atmosphere III WHICH
brutality and pain, and last, and nhuman passion
woai Ise aud gasp and wither, and die away Butthe
power OF the ChiiIan HE Is NOT accuhuhHsd ia any
hin. ike this measure IL j. scattered and feeble. An
inGy yiual here and there is cbarged~b B little knot
of dyidusls PERHAPS. Were all The genuine, unadner-
ated moral conviction OF a. state OF New York gather
ed M in a single jar, its discharge might DO powerful
enough paralyze score ortwo OF rank Secessonsts
as by lightning stroke. But now Oh No. We have
not begun ye. generate force ough 20 cast out ofour
social system this legion of demons which has SO often
flung into tie le ond into the waer TO destroy us.
The spiritual weapons much too e for US TO use.
To make The battle successful, must bIlDg down ON
O lower pl,io, and try 10 wage u with arms OF less
etL eral temper Are we equal to this We ought 20
be by this time Had we the conviction, The feeling,
the will that might have been expected from eighteen
centu ries of Christian teaching, We sbosld have
fought this fight most triumphant y with the pen. We
might have stormed enemies with statistics, and
overwhelmed them with arguments. Tie preachers,
from their wel-direcied and furnished batteries, the
pul,e, might have compelled them to evacuste the
sacred citadel Of the Bible The moralists, planting
themselves upon the mpegnable rock OF human nature,
and occupying the bighs OF iumuabie justice
mgit have driven them oot OF the whole domain Of
equ ana law. The economist. armed with tie sts-
tsiics oi national wealth, and wiellng The crushing
Laws Of trade aud prosperity, might have LETT them no
ground OF thrift expedieey To stand on. The poll.
iiln bringing 10 bear on them the terrible facts OF
| history, might have crushed them beneath the ap
alling apprehension of doom like tnat
which vas Yiied the ancient say-holding natiobs
of Europe aud Asia. The Pfess might have opened
fire along s whole line, and poured on them fiery
storm of books pamphlets sermOGs, tracts, newspa-
rer-, which no human reason could have resisted,
which must have swept all errors, delasous, suIer
siiions prejndices eyen from the Southern mind, as
sw ty as Nap Icons Gle tred tie mob from tho
! public squars Of Paiis. Why did we not 90 this !
Why did not carry this campaign Of paper, and
wage this war of words, which would have cost no
man ID life fortune, and would have Involved the
shedding of Doibing more precious than the contents
| of the ink bolrlsi We had ammunition enough. We
| were sailed in the use Of the quill sword, and
spear VS. but we bad not the heart Tor IT, We had
not the Justice he humanity for 1t; we OH not feel
moved 10 by any sirong cohyiciOn OF tfuth or duty
| We declined the battle he intellectual ground.
| Now aud iteu a w,ll-amed shot fired into the hos
tile camp. Two three weekly papers carried steady
| o,ertiOne agaiDst tie enemy, but their circulation
was TOO limited and their resources 100 meager for the
mighty work in hand They were neither seconded
! supported nor encouraged Tie heart OF tie people
| was not with th.m more etoit WIS made 10 eXtin-
| !. ,I.. t.a.Af fh.n a a IN ~
tins war which Christ naguraed remained, and only
o. o. the coarreot and lowest mode of all. We were
not equal the spiritual warfare ON tie plane Of
character; were not equal 10 the Intellectual war
| fare on the plane of civilization. Nothing was left
| ut the brute warfare, the warfare OF tie sword
Our al power was not eat enough 10 c0Rret our
antae eoni-ls 1t was not great e1ongh TO conrhet our
antagonists we can only try II II Is great enough 10
| kIh Them. w, cannot conquer them with love; we
cannot conquer item with light. Can we blast them
wi ly,toingI Ii IL q sad alternative. IL Is dis
nal COME sson TO make IN this nineteenth century after
Christ that Christian peOI bas got ~ further along
in he Gosl Il than this that IL must settle sdipues
b, an appeal 10 brute lorce. That Christian State
should IA, been able by the naufal force its Con-
,ti,ution 20 throw Of its system such malignant
d.eare as Negro Slavery is melancholy enough That
ci, zed people could rot bring their dispute TO the
bar Of reason, 10 be decided there by argument and
| knowledge, ia even more melancholy But there
stands The undsputed aud indsIntabe fact. We have
learned 10 adjust private disputes without resort
ing 10 the duel We IAN lid ourselves Of petty annoy
a. ces and remedy email disorders by rational means;
but i'll dealing with great crimes must resort TO the
| old methods. WhaI, then, Is 10 be done Mnst ~e
give up The battle because cannot conduct IL on the
III hest ground In old romances read Of soldiers
| wno being disabled from using their sword arm
winding the lance carried the conflict with their
teeth And why should not we, men so fac as
we are such, grasIiDg such weapons as we can use
carry On the fight with evil
-" The arms are fair
When the intent OF bearing them Is just"
Why should not the spirit lie Christian Why
sbood not the conflict be Christian Why should Lot
the organized and moving Jorce lie Christian, though
the il sDaebes up be the barbarous tool of
iron which savsges employ The power Is not In tie
csnnon-shot bat in the idea that sends IL; the temper
of the steel is not In It's edge, but III the VIII that
driyes s edge tue thought OF the lancer gives point
10 the lance Men may ne brutal weapons without
being brnes they may Kill without being murderer;
iLey may bum without being iocend.rles. or Is hot
WI a. IL used 10 be, mere uil ot muscle between two
bull dogs il is tII oil oTat strength between states
Of civilization. IL was not merely France AGAINST
Austria AZ Su Iino; IL Freedom against despot-
ism. IL was not England against Russia 10 the
Crimea; IL was civil za,ion agiutt bal barism. The
arms ere u old battle arms made deadefj bat the
force that used them generated In the interior
cesses OF the conscience. The triumph was triumph
not II artillery but If principles and the fruits OF the
victory innre not 10 Tho baug Leaders and princes
alone but 10 The world.
| contend tnat II ere may be such thing as Chris
,an war contend that hrist inaugurates q irre
pressible eOnht between night aud wrong, % he eau
not frown If that c0nti Is waged the batto-felds
Of this EARTH provided be waged III the OF the
Ighteoue and 0ih the righteous ind. Bat an that
prOvso How maj are ready. 10 take oath that they
are Ting Tor righteous cause and with righteous
mind Let look at the uatih, alton Of wal la this
ago of the world.
4. IL must le war for the defense and difusion of