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The Peace Catechism on Christian Principles,
pages 24-25
Transcript
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Q. What then should parents do that such a happy time may come?
A. They should pray fervently for it; they should learn of Christ to be meek and humble, and they should teach their children by precept and example, to be disciples of him who “died for all.”
Q. What should children do?
A. They should seek the Lord while young, study to know and do his will in all things; they should learn to be kind and peaceable one to another, avoid strife, and be more ready to suffer wrong, than to do wrong.
Q. What should ministers do?
A. They should imbibe the spirit and set the example of peace makers; they should show to mankind the dreadful nature of warring passions, and prove their love to Christ and his gospel, by preaching as he preached, by walking as he walked, and by loving as he loved.
Q. What should rulers do to avoid war?
A. They should become followers indeed of the Prince of Peace; they should rule over men in the fear of God, and do unto others, as they would that other should do unto them; they should regard
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The command, “Thou shalt not kill,” – and be more ready to lay down their own lives to preserve peace, than to sacrifice the lives of others by making war.
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A Dialogue.
Dion and Maximillian
Dion was a Roman proconsul. Maximillian was a young Christian, about twenty years old. He was brought before Dion to be enrolled and marked as a Soldier. The conversation between them is abridged from Mr. Clarkson, and thrown into the form of a Dialogue.
Dion. What is they name?
Maximilian. “Why wouldst thou know my name? I am a Christian, and cannot fight.”
D. “Who has persuaded thee to act thus?”
M. “My own mind, and He who called me.”
D. “Take they arms and receive the mark.”
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Citing this page: Kimberli Faulkner Hull, compiler and transcriber, “The Peace Catechism on Christian Principles by Philo Pacificus, 1816, pages 24-25,” Chasing Light Media, Cool Adventures
( https://cooladventures.com/collection/peace-catechism-philo-pacificus-1816-p-24-25/ : published 2021); Philo Pacificus (Noah Worcester), The Peace Catechism on Christian Principles (Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1816), p. 24-25; previously owned by Lydia Ann Chadwick (1807-1875); privately held by the Faulkner–Hull Collection, Massachusetts.