Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Conditions of Peace: A Discourse Delivered in the West Church: In Memory of David Kimball Hobart, June 14, 1863
Peace! How few words fall on the ear so sweetly! Peace was the song of angels; peace is the benediction of God; peace is the perfection of the soul; peace is the prospelity of the State; peace is heaven, and peace on earth our daily prayei. All war is by many pro nounced unchristian; but 0161 6 never was a badpeace, cried a good man in hor101 at the woes of conflict now in our land. Military as is the popular resolution, there is among us a peace-party, with one wing of sen timent moving quietly, and another of policy flapping noisily; so that the body revolves without going for ward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
