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a packet from Boston , containing some pamphlets on the subject , and a Jktter from the Rev . W . E . Channing . ( A copy of which 1 herewith transmit fto you . ) The pamphlets , five in number , consist of * A Solemn Re-?
view of the Custom of War / a work which has been already t reprinted in this country . Numbers ! > 2 * ^ nd 3 , of a work published quarterly , called , «< The Friend of Peace . " And ^ N umbe r 34 > of a periodical publication , calied , " The Christian
Disciple . ** There also accompanied these pamphlets a printed statement of ' The Constitution of the Massachusetts Peace Society . " ( A written copy of which X also send you- ) ] S umber 1 , of " The Friend of Peace , " containing 42 -pages , consists of ** A Special * l aterview between the President of
the United States and Omar , an . Ofpcer dismissed for Duelling . " - " Six Letters from Orpar to the . President , vwi £ h a View of the Power assumed by Rulers over , theJLaws of God and the X » ives oi Men in making War , and Omar ' s Solidary Reflections . The
< wfaple reported by Philo Pacificus , . Authorpf a JSolpnn Review , & : c . " I * Jumber 2 , contains ** A Jteview of Afie ^ Afguments of Lord Kairnes in JP ^ rVOuj : " : at War /* Number 3 , The Jionprs of Napoleon ' s Cajnpaign in Jiussia . " This article is formed of and
^ x tracts fro m Porter Labaume ; &v \ th son > e remarks by the Editor : it is followed by " An Estimate of I £ u-. 1 * 131 * Sacrifices in the Russian Campaign . " A Paper , " . On Estimating ' th * Characters of Men whQ , nave been
jspneerned in Sanguinary Customs . " ? "A Solemn Appeal to \\ xq Con-$ q } ejnc « s of Professed Christians . " And ' * Af . nienp ^ raUJe , and affecting Contrast between ^ the peaceable Con-< 4 ) ugJ . of W ^ llla ^ n Jt enn , and the oppo-£ \ & . jBehayigur of sorpe other Sety fcrs . ' * In , each of these , is much that
kjf ( truly valuable ^ ind uUerestmg : and Jk $ & \\ WG $ *?** « ome steps may he iajfceji for reprinting and circulating them in this country . In America , th ^; * j ^ olemn Review" has ^ 6 ne through three Jar ^ e . editions in ditfer-JWBfWK > # W % Wi ^ one in New York , and another in
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has devoted six months to careful anj almost incessant inquiries in relation to the dreadful custom , its origin and popularity among Christians , its causes , principles pnd means of sup * port ; its tremendous havoc and
miseries , its opposition to Christianity , its moral influence on nations and individuals , and the means by which it may be abolished . The more he has examined the more he has been astonished that a custom so horrible has
been so long popular , among Christians . For he has been more and more convinced , that it is in its nature perfectly hostile t $ the principles , the precepts and the spirit ot" the Christian religion . / He is also
confident that svich light may be offered on the subject as will bring reflecting Christians of every sect to thfs alter * native , —either to renounce Christir anity as a vile imposture inconsistent * v ith the best * interests of mankind , or to renounce the custom of war
as indefensible and anti-Christian . " From " Tiie Christian Disciple , " I transcribe " Facts relating to the Massachusetts . Peace , Society . " " In consequence of aq arrangement made by four i n dividuals ^ who are now memr bers of the Massachusetts Peace S < £
ciety , a meeting of seventeen per sops took place \ n iJoston on th ? eighteenth of Decem ^ e $ , last , to corjsuit on . thu ? subject of forming a Peace Society . , Xt was the wish of the projectors of (; he plan to form » society on such principles as Would
embrace ifye real friends , of society , without any regard to difference of opinion qji Qther subjects wjiethef religious or politicaL But it was pot known hpw extensively the scntir luents in favour of such > society had been embraced , and of course out t few persons . were requested to attexii At the first meeting a committee waf chosen to form , a constitution , and the
meeting was adjourned to the . twenty * eighth of the same month to be hdd in Cbauncey place , unmcdiatelv aftef the Thursday Lecture j at which tux ^ the committee reported a cpastitutu % 'Jhia iyas read > discuiised , ^ dopted ^ 4 subscribed t > Y-a cQ ^ sidqraT ^ le nuiaber pf j ^ n , ^ . 3 W . choice of ogw » was , pp 8 tix ) ped , to , J ^ ftgjiry 11 , isij't in ikp \ ta& Mat t % ^ tim ^ er of « j ^ ' nmm- */^ pm , >» . ws ^ Wk , && mmm , ^ m ^ m ^ W' ^ tjaS < W WPrW ^ MMf ^ - ^ mja . ^ j £ > 0 w
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/24/
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