The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-25

business of barbari ns.'
The Duke Of We lington said that
''men who had nice notions of relg-
ion had no business to be soldiers"
Sir Harry Smith said that ''the pro-
fession Of soldier was 'damnable
profession
Sir Charles Napier said that, ''to
overcome all feelings Of religion is
generally the means Of making a war
rior."
Lord Bacon says, 81 am Of opinion
that except you could bray christian
ity in mortar, and mould it into a
new paste, there is no possibility OF
holy war;
John Locke says, call the enter
tainment and talk of history is Of
nothing almost but fighting and kill
ing. and the honor and renown which
-ase bestowed on conquerors--who for
the most part are mere butchers Of
mankind - mislead growing youth,
who by these means come to think
slaughter the most laudable business
Of mankind, and the most heroic Of
virtues"
Lord Clarendon says, Eve cannot
make a more lively representation
and emblem to ourselves of hell, than
by the view Of a kingdom in war.
Burke says that 'war suspends all
the rules of moral obligation"
Brougham says, 81 abominate war
as unchris,ian. | hold it the greatest
Of human crimes. deem it to in
clude all others-violence, blood, ra-
pine, fraud, everything which can
deform the character, alter the ma
ture, and debase the name of man."
Jeremy TAYLOR SAYS, "If men be
subjects of Christ's law, they can new
er go to war with each other. As
contrary as cruelty is to mercy, tyr
amy to charity, so is war and blood
shed to the meekness and gen,leness
of the christian religion"
John Wesley says,"Shall christians
assist the prince of hell, who was a
murderer from the beginning, by tell
ing of the benefit of war? Shall
protestant publications proclaim to
the nations that war is blessing OF
Providence?"
John Newton says, "The military
line seems but a poor business, and
| question whether it is becoming our
profession. for a believer, especially
a minister, to place his son deliber-
ately in the school Of slaughter, to
be trained up in the art and practice
Of hurrying sinners in an unprepared
state to eternity.
Chalmers says, "the mere exist ence
Of the prophecy, they shall learn war
no more, is sentence of condemna-
tion upon war, and stamps Grimm
ality on its very forehead; so soon aa
christianity shall gain a full ascen-
dancy in the world, from that mo-
ment war disappears
Ward, the missionary says. "Eithel
our religion is fable, or there are
unanswerable arguments against wal
and the profession of arms"
DIR. Payson, says, "War is surround.
ed by deceitful luster; but let the
monsters hideous form be exposed
in its true colors, and it will be ar
honor to christianity, a powerful ar
gument in her favor, to be known
as his most decided and successful
foe."
Sir William Napier recognised the
the necessity of flogging in war, abe
cause war, after all is a moment wher
men are devils let loose"
Ralph Waldo Emmerson says
"war is on its last legs and univer
sal peace is sure as the prevalence o
civilization over barbarism, of libera
government over feudal forms. Tn,
question for us in only how soon?"
Charles Sumner, in his address be
fore the American Peace Societ,
says, "Peace is the grand chrstia1
oharity-the fountain and parent Q
oil other charities. Let peace be re
moved and all other charities sicke
and die. Where peace Is not, chris
tianity cannot be-"
Sydney Smith, says. "the creates
curse that can be entailed on man
kind is = state Of war. All the afro
cious crimes committed in years {
peace, all that is spent in peace b
the secret corruptions, or by th
thoughtless extravagance Of nations
are mere trifies compared with tn
gigantic evils which stalk over tn
world in state of war; every prir
ciple Of christianity is trampled VI
on"
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