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The Promise of Universal Peace.A Sermon by Henry Ware American Advocate of Peace (1834-1836), Vol. 1, No. 1 (JUNE, 1834), p. 51 Published by: World Affairs Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27886766 . Accessed: 04/10/2013 02:15
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1834.] Wells
conclusion, clearly as

on the Militia
to the constitutional

Veto.? Wares

Sermon.

51
unques

tionable. As to the expediency of such a law, we think it is very

shown same tially the setts Legislature And we are glad that, a bill, substan by Mr. Wells. was as the one in question, by the Massachu passed a law. at their last session, and has now become

right of the Legislature,

Maine had belo re passed a similar law ; and in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, the like changes have either been made, or had
under discussion. We trust that similar changes will be made

in

all the States. The frequent spectacles of military trainings and reviews contribute nothing to the respectability of themilitia, or to
the security What one.

the young, their influence is decidedly bad inmore respects than

we have the sword, his first amusement in his cap and an ornamented tainted with Now this corrupting

of the country;

while

as an element in view, we

in the education indicate

of

words ofMr. Ware:

"The boy's first playthings are the drum and

to marcii coat. Thus and in company with a. feather of the very atmosphere every successive genera

principally

may

in the

which the child breathes his way into manhood, is society, through
war should at least doubt, among a Christian beyond people, as the last sad and awful resort. AH arrange, regarded military as ments So far, should at least be considered purely defensive. and con with any lalse splendour, therefore, from being surrounded be impress upon the minds to be

made to inherit theprejudices of the preceding." tion is

ingredient,

of the young, is a ca that a resort, to arms and the Arms and pre lamity always deplored. deprecated for national defence should be connected in the imagination parations as the last of the 3'oung with the same solemn and awful associations, than about the executioner and the gallows.

tributingto delude themoral sense, every thing should be done to

inflictions of penal law. There should be nomore glory about them

4.?The

Promise

Pub Mass. Henry Ware, Jr. Professor, fyc. Cambridge, lished in theLiberal Preacher, forJanuary, 1834. pp. 23.
This justness, is an and excellent often marked discourse, by clearness, good scr.se, of thought, with the same quiet and eloquence of style, for which most of tin's writer's productions or out of propor There is nothing exaggerated admirably calculated to do good, and pro

of Universal

Peace.?A

Sermon,

by

the Rev.

simple elegance are distinguished. This discourse

Mr. Ware's tion in

minds of themost cultivated and thoughtful duce conviction in order. The object of the discourse is to show, that "the evils of War are such as to demand that the cHorts of all good and patriotic men be directed against it; while theweakness of the principleswhich sus tain it,and the strengthof the principles which oppose it,give en couragement to believe that they shall not labour in vain."

is, therefore,

or style of expressing himself. turnof thinking,

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