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The Peace Catechism on Christian Principles,
pages 30-31

The leaf shown at the bottom of page 31 was found in the gutter of the book.

Transcript

30

Besides, “Celsus, who lived at the end of the second century, attached the christian religion. He made it one of his charges against the Christians, that they had refused to bear arms for the Emperour, even in the case of necessity.,” He told them farther, “that if the rest of the empire were their opinion, it would soon be overrun by barbarians.”

This was indeed the testimony of any enemy. But Origin replied to Celsus; and “in his answer, admits the fact as stated by Celsus, that the Christians would not bear arms, and justifies them for refusing the practice, on the principle of the unlawfulness of war.” What possible facts, could be more decisive than these, to show how the early Christians understood the laws of Christ?

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Selected Poetry For Children

Christ’s Example.

As is the gospel peace and love?

Such let our conversation be,

The serpent blended with the dove,

Wisdom and meek simplicity.

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When’er the angry passions rise,

And tempt our thoughts or tongues to strife;

To Jesus let us lift our eyes.

Bright pattern of the Christian’s life.

O how benevolent and kind!

How mild, how ready to forgive!

Be this the temper of our mind,

And these the rules by which we live.

To do his heavenly Father’s will,

Was his employment and delight;

Humility and holy zeal,

Shone through his life divinely bright.

Dispensing good where’er he came,

The labours of his life were love;

The if we bear the Saviour’s name,

By his example let us move.

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The Sailor’s Orphan Boy.

Stay Lady, – stay, for mercy’s sake,

And hear a helpless orphan’s tale,

Ah! sure my looks must pity wake,

‘Tis want that makes my cheeks so pale,

Citing this page: Kimberli Faulkner Hull, compiler and transcriber, “The Peace Catechism on Christian Principles by Philo Pacificus, 1816, pages 30-31,” Chasing Light Media, Cool Adventures
( https://cooladventures.com/collection/peace-catechism-philo-pacificus-1816-p-30-31/ : published 2021); Philo Pacificus (Noah Worcester), The Peace Catechism on Christian Principles (Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1816), p. 30-31; previously owned by Lydia Ann Chadwick (1807-1875); privately held by the Faulkner–Hull Collection, Massachusetts.

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