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      TliE ABOLITION OF WAR *

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      To the Editor of the JSlonthly Repository .

      SIR , By inserting the following animated letter lately received , you will oblige your constant reader and humble servant , W . R-

      Dear Sir , Agreeably to my promise I will extract for you the passage from one of my

      sermons , preached at N » which it seem-, accorded so well with your feelings and notion's on the subject © f peace . C " Happily the stain of continuing the 6 lavc trade is wiped from the national character of Britain . Were the same

      unabated perse vcraoce , losing no sight of its abject , and neglecting no lawful means for its purpose , to be used for the extirpation of a still feller demon , War , in every state , in every country , and in every clime , were its causes and its consequences , its appearances , and its effects , its injustice and its impolicy , its evils

      and its horrors , continually and unremittingly presented to mankind by the friends of peace , by the children of humanity , and by the disciples of Jesus Christ , forgetting all their differences * and forming one firm indissoluble band , in this glorious cause , though the

      selfohness of individuals may frown upon the attempt , and induce them to brand * t with reproaches ; who will dare to » ay that the end might not finally be accom plished , or ; that by the adoption of these methods , peace might not sooner reign tnumphant in every region of the Vet here my dear Sir , is the , difficulty , ^ ho will tic the bell about the Uon ' s

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      neck ; so as to advertise the world that this indeed is Satan going about , seeking whom , he may devour T The idea was suggested by perusing Clarkson ' s book on the abolition of the . slave trade . So »

      impressed was I at first b y it , that t scarcely wrote a letter to any correspondent without introducing it . If am epistle to — . — . be preserved by him , you may find a fuller detail . I have endeavoured to fire him with the ambition

      of being the Clarkson of a future age ; I have introduced the consideration of the subject into one of our conversation societies by a kind of Catholic epistle . I know not the precise effect , nor am t very solicitous to know it . 1 am satisfied at present with sowing the acorn , and I . would have all others who can , do the

      same . The rree of peace must be like the British oak , strike its roots deep , be long in rising to maturity before it cans spread wide , make a goolly shadow , and shelter families and natrons , undeir its leaves and branches . There must

      therefore be no slackening , no desponding , no abandonment . We must go right onward though we march but an inch a day . Nothing else , useful or good need to be forsaken , even for this glorious purpose . On it let the eye be fixed as on a distant vista , at the termination ! of a noble and delightful prospect , and then as we approach , it , its root will seem rivettcd to the centre and it will

      appear to tower to the sky . Some mayexclaim , what idle and extravagant and : fruitless enthusiasm , but » irch exclamations ntust be minded no more than so much vain babbling , the mere whis ling ; of the wind . No good effort can e \ eir be lost . Centuries may first revoh 0 but the deed may yet be done . How {

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      The Abolition of War . 5 S 9 *

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      fcis regards , and fi ^ es them on the divine government . He knows chat at the awful tribunal of heaven , kings and their subjects , the oppressors and the oppressed , the victors and the vanquished , must finally appear . From that tribunaL a righteous award will be

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      made , and the claims of eternal justice , or , to speak more correctly , the purposes of infinite be . * nevolence , will be carried into effect by the operations of unlimiiecT power . I am &c . HYLAS .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 589, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/13/