CHRISTIANITY AND WAR. 



a weak foreign policy and an abandonment of 

 British interests for this, I find, in the Bible and 

 in the Church, nothing but unqualified con- 

 demnation. 



But I find no condemnation of the calling of the 

 Christian soldier, and, therefore, I cannot adopt 

 the teaching of Tertullian in ancient days, or of 

 the Peace Society in our own. We honour them 

 for their noble protest, we thank them for recalling 

 the Church to its high ideal. The question 

 between us and them is one not of motive but 

 of metJiod. Is the kingdom of peace to win its 

 way by influence or by protest ; by a policy of 

 permeation or a policy of separation ; by the 

 implanting of a new nature which may transform 

 the old, or by a mechanical substitution of the 

 Divine for the human ? In a word, do we believe 

 in " regeneration," or in " instantaneous con- 

 version ? " 



