An Inquiry on the Duty of Christians with Respect to War: Including an Examination of the Principle of the London and American Peace Societies in a Series of Letters (Classic Reprint)

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FB&C Limited, 18 juil. 2015 - 216 pages
Excerpt from An Inquiry on the Duty of Christians With Respect to War: Including an Examination of the Principle of the London and American Peace Societies in a Series of Letters

In the following Letters, which, it is hoped, will be found unequivocally friendly to the real cause of Peace, the Author has not made it any part of his design, to pourtray the crimes and miseries of War. This task has been so ably fulfilled in those elo quent discourses and popular tracts which depict the horrors of warfare in general, and in some dreadful narratives of recent cam paigns, that a repetition of the gloomy detail might be justly deemed superfluous.' The.

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John Sheppard developed an interest in writing later in life than many. He grew-up reading and enjoying the works of authors; E.G. Poe, Jack London, Leo Tolstoy, and John Hersey. Currently, John is an engineer for a major Japanese automobile company. He has a BA in Biblical studies. John prefers to mix history and suspense as he writes. His books TEN DAYS, and Seeds of the Bitter Harvest are part of the "Fallen" Series.

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