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grossly perverted. The nations of Europe are professedly christian; but in Europe war has raged until it has lost its energies, and it is still cultivated as a science, and followed as a profession, although its principles and its practices are as much opposed to christianity as light is to darkness; and there is much truth in the assertion, that “were Christian nations, nations of christians, all war would be impossible, and unknown among them.” Let those who may doubt this assertion, read attentively the Sermon of Jesus Christ upon the Mount, Matthew v. vi- and vii. and let them say, if War is in any way countenanced there.
To correct, however, the ideas of those into whose hands this may fall, who think otherwise, a few mournful Pictures are subjoined, which have been exhibited to the world during some of the recent campaigns; and that they may not be objected to as the (ideal representations of an over-sanguine philanthropy, are delineated in the words of the writers, who were themselves eyewitnesses of, or actors in, the scenes they so affctingly describe; and these we shall introduce with the following Picture of War, and its effects, drawn by a modern divine.
At the final issue of an obstinate contest, where must necessarily be many lives lost on both sides; destruction has then done her worst, and selected the objects of her fury; the grave that tells no tales, silently receives
