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adverse to war. And while the nations are massing armies and 

 forging implements of mutual destruction, the conviction is spread- 

 ing everywhere that war and the preparations for war are injurious to 

 the interests and happiness of States, and that it would be their 

 wisdom, in every case, to submit their differences to a High Court 

 of Nations, rather than to butcher and ruin one another from 

 mistaken principles of interest or honour." — (Charge to the' Clergy^ 



THE REV. CANON NORRIS, 1870. 



"I seem to hear the voice of Christ's Apostle in this our Social 

 Congress — ' I speak this to your sharile. Is it so that there is not a 

 wise man among you ' to propose some other appeal than that to 

 the sword ? But nation goes to war with nation, and that to the 

 reproach of our religion. If it be too late, if this present war must 

 needs exhaust itself in blood, yet one hope may surely be ours, that 

 the conscience of Christendom, shocked and outraged as it has been, 

 may be forced for very shame to assert the principle of International 

 Arbitration." — (Speech at Social Science Congress). 



