hit a fortress perfectly bomb-proof. The commander was perplexed. "If there is nobody to fight with, of course we cannot fight,” said he. "It is impossible to take such a town as this." So he ordered the horses heads to be' turred about, and they carried the human animals out of the village, as guiltless as they entered, and perchance somewhat wiser.

This experiment on a small scale, indicates how easy it would be to dispense with armies and navies, if men had faith in the religion they profess to believe." For here we have a practical illustration of what a nation could do without being fortified by forts and bomb-shells, without a Standing Army and a Navy. It would not, in the nature of things, be possible for a foreign power to injure us did they know that we could not be induced to fight. One man or one nation could not fight alone. If our enemy (in case we should have one) saw that we were willing in all cases to do what was right, that we would not injure him, we should not be injured. This to me is self evident!

You cannot fail to perceive that had the inhabitants of Tyrol assembled and organized into a military company, and built a Fort, &c., there I would have been a skirmish forthwith. But being practical peace men and women, they dis

armed their foes. The armed soldiery were not prepared to slay peaceful, gospel loving christians, and of course it was no place for them.— Like Satan in paradise. as the fable teaches, they no doubt felt uncomfortable, and left Tyrol as fast as their locomotive powers enabled them.

I then take the position, that our fortifications, and navy, and army, and Militia, clearly invite an attack from every foreign power on our globe. "It is a rule now recognized, even in the barbarous code of war, one branch of which has been illustrated with admirable ability in the diplomatic correspondence of Mr. Webster, that noncombatants, shall not in any way be molested, and that the right of property of private persons shall in all cases be held sacred. So firmly did the Duke of Wellington act upon this rule, that throughout the murderous campaigns of Spain, and afterward when he entered France, flushed with the victory of Waterloo, he directed that his army should pay for all provisions, and even for the forage of their horses." The WAR is carried on against public property-against fortifications, navy yards, arsenals and battle ships.But you see, if these do not exist, if there be no combatants, there can be no fuel for the flame! I then repeat, every fortification and gun in the land, instead of being a safe guard, is a source

of danger. For they draw upon us War, as naturally as the lightening rods upon our dwellings draw electricity from the clouds of heaven.

I have another illustration representing the position we have taken, viz: that we should be more secure without weapons of death than with. Br. Montgomery in his work called "Law of Kindness," (a copy of which should be placed in the hands of every christian believer, yea and unbeliever too,) says-" An intelligent Quaker from Cincinatti, related to me the following circumstance, as evidence that the principle of non resistance possesses influence over the savage! During the last war, a Quaker lived among the inhabitants of a small settlement on our Western frontier. When the savages commenced their dosolating outbreak, every inhabitant fled to the interior settlement, with the exception of the Quaker and his family. He determined to remain, solely relying upon the simple rule of disarming his enemies with entire confidence and kindness. One morning he observed through his window a file of Savages issuing from the forest in the direction of his house. He immediately went out and met them, and put out his hand to the leader of the party. But neither he nor the rest gave him any notice-they entered his house, and searched it for arms, and had they

found any, most probably they would have murdered every member of the family. There were none however, and they quietly partook of the provisions which he placed before them, and left him in peace. At the entrance of the forest, he observed that they stopped, and appeared to be holding a council. Soon after one of their number left the rest and came towards the dwelling on the leap. He reached the door, and fastened a simple white feather above it, and returned to his band, when they all disappeared. Ever after, that white feather saved him from the Savages; for whenever a party came by and observed it, it was a sign of peace to them. In this instance we discover that the law of kindness disarmed even savage foes, whose white feather told their red brethren that the Quaker was a follower of Penn, and the friend of their race."

Brethren, why not all of us display the "white feather," showing to the world that we cannot and will not war against any portion of our fellow men-that we could not be induced by any consideration to take up arms against our brother man? The fact is, the majority are Jews, not Christians, and have no confidence in Christ's teachings, but trample them under foot. Thus society educates her children to be bloody-minded

-to resist injuries-to smite when smitten-to love friends and hate enemies.

In the conduct of Penn, towards the Indians, we have a practical illustration of what honest dealing, and christian forbearance will do, even with the untutored sons of the forest; and his conduct with them, strongly contrasts with the revengeful, hypocritical, murderous course of those whining bigots who redened their hands in the poor Indians' blood, and gave all the glory to God! "We know that when Penn visited this country, he came without cannon or sword, and with a determination to meet the Indians with truth and kindness. He bought their lands and paid them-he made a treaty with them and observed it; and he always treated them as men. As a specimen of the manner in which he met the Indians, the following instance is very striking: There was some fertile and excellent lands which, in 1798, Penn ascertained were excluded from his first purchase; and as he was very desirous of obtaining it, he made the proposal to the Indians that he would buy their lands, if they were willing. They returned for answer that they had no desire to sell the spot where their fathers were deposited, but to "please their father Onas," as they called Penn, they said he should have some of their lands. This being