WAR.
War is an evil of no ordinary magnitude in whatever aspect it is viewed. The boasted glory which attends a signal victory, is worse than a shadow, and amounts simply to this, that a certain mass of matter, consisting of flesh and blood, succeeded in hewing to pieces so many bodies made of the same perishable material. We can discover neither honour nor glory here ; it is brute force against brute force, gun against gun, or spear against spear. All barbarous nations delight in war, and wherefore ? "They are led captive by the devil at his will" and the arch enemy will ever maintain extraordinary influence over mankind while he can keep up the thirst for war, at the same time he artfully conceals from the contending parties the solemn fact, that " no murderer shall inherit the kingdom of God " It may be urged that the Jews of old were not only permitted to go to war, but commanded. True ; but ever since the fall, sin has polluted the atmosphere of this world, and the Divine Being uses many means in order to punish the inpenitent and disobedient. Sometimes he causes a flood to overwhelm the guilty inhabitants of the earth. Fire and brimstone, pestilence, or famine, are the agents employed at other times, and not
a devastating war is permitted, carrying off its thousands, and tens of'thousands. I War, is not a necessary evil as many assert, it is the outbreak of ungovernable passion, and until men learn to conquer the evils of their nature, war must continue. Civilization has achieved much, nor may its advantages be easily numbered ; but it has no power to stem the torrent of iniquity which is being poured forth from every unregenerate heart. Christianity alone can calm the tumultuous sea of human strife ; when nations, therefore, become wholly Christian the "sword" - will be beat "into ploughshares, and the spears into pruning hooks ; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." This will be so in the Millennium • but it might be so now. ' We trust that these few plain remarks will not be altogether lost upon our native friends/some of whom are now unhappily engaged in Seadly combat. J
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 3, 1 March 1855, Page 47
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374WAR. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 3, 1 March 1855, Page 47
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