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A SHORT SERMON.
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hear the groans of death. Rulers, who make war, should remember the suffering and sin which it occasions, and how much more noble it is to save life than to destroy it.
Howard visited the prisons of Europe, and relieved the miseries of those who had no helper, and died with their blessings on his head. Buonaparte caused multitudes to be slain, and multitudes to mourn, and died like a chained lion upon a desolate island. Is not the fame of Howard better than that of Buonaparte?
The Friends, or Quakers as they are sometimes called, never go to war. The State of Pennsylvania was settled by them. William Penn its founder, pur-