Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
WHAT rs WARP
Answer. by Emlnen. sIen.

IN apoleon SAID the war was the
business of the barbarians."
Burke says that "war suspends
| all the rules of moral obligation"
SIR Harry Smith said that "the
profession of soldier was damna-
BILE profession
The Duke of Wellington said
that men who had notions of religion
had no busiucss to be soldier"
Sir Charles Napier said that, "to
overcome all feelings of religion is
generally the means of making a war
| rior."
Sir William Napier recognized
the necessity of war, because war,
| after all, is moment when men are
devils 10 .soose."
-Lor Claredon says, eve cannot
make a more lively representation
and emblem to ourselves Of hell, than
by the view of kingdom in war"
Lord Bacon says, 81 am Of opin.
ion that except you could bray Chris
tianity in mortar, and mould it into
new paste, there is no possibility of
a holy war"
Ralph Waldo Emerson says:
"War is on its last legs and univer-
sal peace is as sure as the prevalence
of civilization over barbarism, of lib
eral government over feudal forms.
The question for us is only how soon?"
j ohm Wesley says, "Shall Chris.
tians assist the prince of hell, who was
murderer from the beginning, by
telling of the benefit of war? Shall
Protestant publications proclaim to
the nations that war is a blessing of
Providence ?"
Jeremy Taylor Says, eff men be
subjects OF Chrlst'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 gentleness
of the Christian religion"
-Brougham says, 81 abominate
war as unchristian. | hold it the
greatest of human crimes. | deem
it to include all others = violence,
blood, rapine, fraud, everything which
can deform the character, alter the ma
ture, and debase the name of man"
DR.. Payson says: "War is sur
rounded by deceittul luster: but let
the monsters hideous form be expos
ed in its true colors, and it will be an
honor to Christianity, powerful ar
gument in her favor to be known as
his most dedided and successful foe"
Chalmers says, "The mere exist
ance of the prophecy, they shall learn
war no more, is sentence of con-
domination upon war, and stamps a
criminallty on its very forehead; so
soon as Christianity shall gain a full
ascendency in the world, from that
moment war disappears"
Charles Sumner, in his address
before the American Peace Society,
says: Peace is the grand Christian
Charity-the fountain and parent Of
all other charities. Let peace be re-
moved and other charities sicken and
die. Where peace is not, Christian.
ty cannot be-"
John Newton says, "The military
line seems but a poor business, and |
question whether it is becoming our
profession, for believer, especially
minister, to place his son deliberate
ly in the school of slaughter, to be
trained up in the art and practice of
hurrying sinners in an unprepared
state to eternity.
John Locke says, "All the en-
tertainment and talk of history is Of
nothing almost but fighting and kill
ing, and the honor and renown which
was bestowed upon 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"
Sydney Smith says, "The great
est curse that can be entailed on man
kind is state of war All the afro
cous crimes committed in years of
peace, all that is spent in peace by
the secret corruptions, or by the
thoughtless extravaganza of nations,
are mere trifes compared with the gi.
gantic evils which stalk over this
world in a state of war. God is for
gotten in war; every principle of
Christianity is trampled upon"