8. Military Discipline..... ........12 42. Claims of Peace on Women Pages 12 8 4 38. A Glimpse of War, by Dr Chan .......... ..12 ning ....... .... ...12 6. Four Aspects of War 4 D. D.... .... ........12 39. Military Hospitals... 4 ......16 ....12 43. Solemn, Appeal, by William Ladd.24 44. The Battle-field.. 11. Union in Peace... 8 45. Inefficacy of War, by Hon. William Jay 8 46. Militia Drills. 14. Waste of Property in War.......12 47. United States Navy, by S. E. 15. Appeal to Cities 4 16. War inconsistent with Christianity by. H. Malcom, D. D., LL.D... 8 17. War Unlawful, by J. J. Gurney.12 18. Chalmers on Peace.... Coues. .... 48. Mistakes about Peace Peace and Government, by Geo. 12 8 49. 8 50. Criminality of War, by H. Mal 19. Chief Evil of War, by Dr. Chan com... ..16 Price of the above, eight pages for a cent, one quarter discount per hundred or gratuitous distribution. 62. War a Trial by Battle, by Hon. 4 63. True Grandeur of Nations, by 24 4 64. Claims of Peace on Literary Men.12 FUNDS have been raised for sending it gratuitously for a time, -1. To a large number of our 4,000 or 5,000 periodicals, in the hope that they will help spread the information it contains; -2. To a select number of our 40,000 preachers of the gospel, to all, indeed, who take up a collection for the Society;-3. To prominent laymen, and to the Library or Reading Room of our higher Seminaries, to be preserved for permanent use. We presume that those to whom it is sent, will willingly pay the postage; but, if not, they can return it. We trust that not a few will become subscribers, contributors, or co-workers in other ways. Such information as it contains we would fain put in every family. PUBLICATIONS ON PEACE. In the cause of peace, more perhaps than in any other enterprise of benevolence or reform, the press has been employed as the chief instrument in bringing the subject before the public in its various bearings. Besides its periodical, the ADVOCATE OF PEACE, and more than eighty stereotyped tracts, it has published the following volumes: Prize Essays on a Congress of Nations, 8vo., pp. 706 (very few),. Book of Peace, 12mo., pp. 606. The Society's Tracts, bound,. .... The Right Way. pp. 303. Issued by Am. Tract Society, N. Y.,... ADDRESSES BEFORE THE SOCIETY. 1. By Walter Channing, M. D., delivered in 1844. 2. By Hon. William Jay, delivered in 1845 and 1855. 3. By Hon. Charles Sumner, on the War-System, delivered in 1849. 4. By Rufus W. Clarke, D. D., delivered in 1851. 5. By F. W. Huntington, D. D., delivered in 1852, 6. By William H. Allen, M. D., LL. D., delivered in 1854. 7. By Rufus P. Stebbins, D. D., delivered in 1857. 8. By Hon. Gerrit Smith, delivered in 1858. 9. By G. B. Cheever, D. D., Eulogy on Judge Jay, delivered in 1859. 10. By Samuel J. May, D. D. delivered in 1860. 11. By Howard Malcom, D. D., LL. D., delivered in 1862. 12. By Hon. Amasa Walker, delivered in 1863. $3.00 1.00 40 1.50 40 40 30 40 50 Of the above, we have only a few of 1,2, (except that in 1855,) 4, and 9; of 3 we have many, a large second edition, 80 pp.; and quite a number of the others. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. HOWARD MALCOM, D. D., LL. D., PRESIDENT, Philadelphia. BARON STOW, D. D., Chairman of Executive Committee. JOHN FIELD, Esq., Treasurer. GEO. C. BECKWITH, D. D., Corresponding Secretary. dollars, to be FORM OF BEQUEST.-I give and bequeath to the American Peace Society, incorporated by the Legislature of Massachusetts, the sum of paid in months after my decease, for the purposes of said Society, and for which the receipt of its Treasurer for the time being shall be a sufficient discharge. Be sure you give the Society its exact name, and have the will drawn in the way, and attested by the full number of witnesses, required by the laws of your State, or the wul may be broken. GEO. C. BECK WITH, Cor. Sec., to whom all communications may be sent. AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY. 1867. POSTAGE.-The law allows only 6 cents a year, quarterly in advance. ORGANIZED, MAY, 1828. Irs object, as stated in its Constitution, is "to illustrate the inconsistency of war with Christianity, to show its baleful influence on all the great interests of mankind, and devise means for securing universal and permanent peace." For this purpose it seeks to form a public opinion in favor of superseding war by peaceful expedients more effectual than war, for the great ends of international security and justice, such as Occasional Reference, Stipulated Arbitration, and a Congress of Nations. These expedients, identical in principle with the system of laws and courts provided by every government for its own subjects, we would have extended, with suitable modifications, to the brotherhood of nations for the settlement of their disputes in essentially the same way that individuals and minor communities do theirs The Society prints and circulates pamphlets, tracts and volumes, holds public meetings, and maintains correspondence with the friends of peace in other countries, watches against the approach of national hostilities, and strives to prevent them by timely remonstrance. It endeavors, also, to enlist in this cause the Christian pulpit, the entire periodical press, and all seminaries of learning, as the chief engines for creating or controlling public opinion; and by such means it hopes in time to induce governments to exchange their present war-system for peaceful, Christian methods of settling their difficulties. It invites the co-operation of all who are willing to aid in thus promoting peace on earth and good-will among men. FUNDS. In carrying on these operations as they should be, there will be needed, at least for a time, quite as large an amount as in the Bible Society. Besides an office and a Periodical as its organ, the Society ought to establish in all great centres of business depositories of peace publications, and employ in every State one or more lecturing agents to keep the subject constantly before the whole community, but more especially to bring it before ecclesiastical bodies, seminaries of learning, and the State and national governments. SOURCES OF INCOME. Besides collections, donations, legacies, and the sale of publicatiors, there are Life-Directorships, $50; Life-Memberships, $20; Annual Membership, $2; to all which the society's periodical is sent without charge, and for a year, also, to every donor of $1, or more, and to every pastor who preaches on the subject and takes up an annual collection for the cause. ADVOCATE OF PEACE-Devoted to the Peace Question in its manifold bearings, and containing discussions of principles, and measures connected with the peace movement, statistics, anecdotes and illustrations from history, biographical sketches of distinguished friends, reviews of books on the subject, and general facts respecting the progress of the cause through the world. Monthly, or a double number once in two months, making a volume in two years, for $1.00, or ten cents a number. To auxiliary societies, or clubs c1 not less than ten, 30 per cent. discount. |