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THE

AMERICAN ADVOCATE OF

PEACE AND ARBITRATION. [Entered at the Boston Post Office, as Second Class Mail Matter.]

VOL. LIU. No. 1. BOSTON, JANUARY, 1891.

Price, $1.00 a Year.

A Happy New Year. The American Peace Society "Evils that War alone can Remedy" . The President's Message . Chloroform instead of Powder . Meeting of the Executive Committee The Real Battle-fie?d. The Year of the Lord. Poem, W. C. Gannett A City Christian. Why Two Nations Hate. Thanksgiving. Poem, W. D. Howell. A Bit of True History. Elihu Burritt Keep about your Work. Peace Movement among "Friends" . The Ends of the Earth Together . Address of Gen. O. O. Howard . Thanksgiving Day Prophecies. Rev. E. E.

Hale. The Life Saving Service. Hon. S. I. Kimball The Lost Sheep. Poem. Peace Novels.

CONTENTS. PAGE

Money Cost of Saving or Destroying Men 10 "Militarism." Rev. Abel Stevens, D. D. . 10 A Nightmare of Unreal Realism. Dorothy

Lundt. 11 The Peace Sunday. 13 Our Charter. 13 Dangerous Crises. 13 The New Life of Ladd. 13 The Fellowship of Finance. ... 13 Wm. Ladd and Defensive Wars. . . 14 Philadelphia Peace Meetings ... 14 While We May. Poem. 15 Diary of the Secretary. 15-17 The Duke of Wellington on War . . 17 For M. E. S. Poem, John G. Whittier . 17 Letter to Secretary. Jos. Peace Hazard. 18 Arbitration as to the Seal Fisheries. . 18 Hebrews and Christians .... 19 A few Peaceful Words anent War . . 19 Is War a ^Surgeon's Knife" or an Assas

sin's Dagger?. 20

PAGE "Warlike Virtues". 21 The Sunlight of our Household. Poem . 21 Conditions of Arbitration .... 21 The Angelus. Poem, Lucy Larcom. . 22 Incompleteness. Poem, James Clarence Harvey. 22

Conscription in Germany . . . . 22 A Living Tide. Poem, Longfellow . . 22 Women and War. Wm. Lloyd Garrison 22 Obstacles to the Peace Movement m Eng

land. Wm. Glark. 23 Peace or War; Which? Address by Rev.

S. Goodenough of California. Published by request. 25-29

A Theatre of War in 1870 .... 29 Pan-Republic Congress .... 29 Public and Private War. Mrs. M. E. Blake 30 The Bravest of Battles. Poem, Joaquin Miller. 30

The Pension Bureau. 30

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2 THE AMERICAN ADVOCATE OF PEACE AND ARBITRATION.

OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY.

president :

Hon. Edward S. Tobey, Boston, Mass.

corresponding secretary :

Rev. Rowland B. Howard, 1 Somerset St., Boston, Mass.

vice-presidents .*

Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Brookline, Mass. John G. Whittier, Amesbury, Mass. Hon. Robert Treat Paine, Waltham, Mass. Prof. Geo. A. Boardman, Chicago, 111. Pres. Samuel W. Boardman, Marysville, Tenn. Hon. J. Q. A. Brackett, Arlington, Mass. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D., Boston, Mass. Hon. Felix R. Brunot, Pittsburgh, Pa. Hon. Jonathan Chace, Providence, R. I. H. B. Chamberlain, Denver, Col. Wm. M. Cornell, D.D., LL.D., Boston, Mass. Hon. Frederick Douglass, Port au Prince, Hayti. Hon. David Dudley Field, New York, NT. Y. Philip C. Garrett, Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. David Gregg, D.D., Boston, Mass. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D., Boston, Mass. Hon. Rowland Hazard, Peacedale, R. I. John Hemmenway, St. Anthony's Park, Minn. Rev. Moses D. H?ge, D.D., Richmond, Va. W. G. Hubbard, Columbus, Ohio. Hon. John Jay, New York, N. Y. Hon. Sumner I. Kimball, Washington, D. C. Rev. Geo. F. Magoun, D.D., Grinnell, Iowa. Rev. John W. Olmstead, Boston, Mass. Rev. A. P. Peabody, D.D., Cambridge, Mass. Hon. Amos. Perry, Providence, R. I. L. H. Pilisbury, Esq., Derry, N. H. Hon. Wm. L. Putnam, Portland, Me. Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, Brookline, Mass. J. H. Stickney, Esq., Baltimore, Md. David S. Taber, New York, IST. Y. Pres. C. F. Thwing, D.D., Cleveland, Ohio. Bishop Henry W. Warren, Denver, Col.

directors !

Rev. L. H. Angier, Boston, Mass. Hannah J. Bailey, Winthrop Centre, Me. Rev. Smith Baker, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn. W. H. Baldwin, Boston, Mass. Ida Whipple Benham, Mystic, Conn.

Hannah W. Blackburn, Zanesfield, Ohio. Rev. Geo. D. Boardman, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. Sidi H. Browne, Columbia, S. C.

Joseph Cartland, Newburyport, Mass. Rev. Joseph S- Cogswell, Groveville, Me. Rev. Frank G. Clark, Plymouth, 1ST. H. T. B. Cooledge, Esq., North Woburn, Mass. Geo. Cromwell, Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. Howard C. Dunham, Winthrop, Mass. Rev. S. Hopkins Emery, Taunton, Mass. D. S. Ford, Boston, Mass. Rev. Thomas Hill, D.D., Portland, Me. Hon. H. O. Houghton, Cambridge, Mass. Julia Ward Howe, Boston, Mass. P. McGrath, Esq., Quincy, Mass. Thos. A. Robertson, Rockford, 111. Frederic A. Smith, Maiden, Mass. Albert Tolman, Esq., Worcester, Mass. Kate Gannett Wells, Boston, Mass. John B. Wood, Germantown, Pa. Rev. John Worcester, Newton, Mass.

executive committee:

Nathaniel T. Allen, West Newton, Mass. Rev. S. C. Bushnell, Arlington, Mass. Rev. D. S. Coles, A. M., M. D., Wakefield, Mass. Cornelius T. Dunham, Esq.,Annidale Park, Dorchester, Mass. Rev. David H. Eia, D.D., Chelsea, Mass. J. E. Farwell, Esq., 45 Pearl St., Boston, Mass. Thomas Gameld, 54 Allen St., Boston, Mass. Rob't P. Gifford, Providence, R. I. Hon. David K. Hitchcock, Newton, Mass. Rev. A. A. Miner, D.D., 528 Columbus Av., Boston, Mass. Wm. A. Mowry, Ph.D., 50 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass. Hon. W. E. Sheldon, West Newton, Mass. Rev. Chas. B. Smith, West Medford, Mass. Rev. A. E. Winship, 3 Somerset St., Boston, Mass. Thomas Wood, 3 GleasonSt., Boston, Mass.

Rev. Daniel Richards, Office Agt, 8 Loring St., Somerville, Mass. F. M. Patten, Treasurer, 15 Milton Place, Boston, Mass. D. C. Heath, Auditor, Newtonville, Mass.

CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY.

Article I. This Society shall be designated the 1 'American

Peace Society."

Art. II. This Society, being founded on the principle that all war is contrary to the spirit of the gospel, shall have for its object to illustrate the inconsistency of war with Christianity, to show its baleful influence on all the great interests of mankind, and to devise means for insuring universal and permanent peace.

Art. III. Persons of every Christian denomination desirous of

promoting peace on earth, and good-will towards men, may be come members of this Society.

Art. IY. Every annual subscriber of two dollars, and every donor of five dollars, shall be a member of this Society.

Art. Y. The payment of twenty dollars at one time, shall con stitute any person a Life-member, and fifty dollars, a Life-director.

Art. VI. The chairman of each corresponding committee, the officers and delegates of every auxiliary contributing to the funds of this Society, and every minister of the gospel who preaches once a year on the subject of peace, and takes up a collection in behalf of the cause, shall be entitled to the privileges of regular

members.

Art. VII. All contributors shall be entitled within the year to one-half the amount of their contributions in the publications of the Society.

Art. VIII. The officers of this Society shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, Directors, Secretaries, Treasurer and an Execu tive Committee of not less than five, with power to fill their own vacancies, and transact the general business of the Society. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than twenty, who shall have power to supply vacancies in any office of the Society, and direct all its operations till successors are chosen. The Vice presidents shall be ex-officio Directors, and the President, Secre taries and Treasurer ex-officio members of the Executive Com

mittee.

Art. IX. The Society shall hold an annual meeting at such time and place as the Board of Directors may appoint, to receive their own and the Treasurer's report, to choose officers, and transact such other business as may come before them.

Art. X. The object of this Society shall never be changed; but the constitution may in other respects be altered, on recom mendation of the Executive Committee, or of any ten members of the Society, by a vote of three-fourths of the members present at any regular meeting.

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