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A SHORT SERMON.
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not been sinful. All have not been equally so. But we will not employ our time with condemning those who have engaged in war. Our present inquiry is, how it may be prevented in future. Might not nations settle their differences without an appeal to arms? Might not their variances be healed, by the mediation of another nation, as a good man makes peace among his neighbours? Might not one Christian ruler address those who were ready to contend, as the patriarch Abraham, did his angry kinsman, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, for ye are brethren."
If there have been always wars from the beginning, there is no proof that there need be unto the end. The Bible