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MEN WANTED!Author(s): HENRY MARTINSource: Advocate of Peace (1847-1884), New Series, Vol. 3, No. 33 (SEPTEMBER 15, 1871), p. 101Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27905089 .

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Sept., 1871. THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. 101

PEACE PATRIOTISM. One of the most potent though perhaps unsuspected causes

of war may be found in ignorant and misguided patriotism. Good people, even ministers and religious editors who would

shrink with horror from the imputation of fomenting national

quarrels, are nevertheless often guilty of catering to the mor bid spirit of selfish patriotism, and thus really lending their in fluence to the party of blood and war.

In the Christian Union of May 10th?referring to a speech of Earl Granville in the House of Lords?the Editor says "

However patriotism may compel us to decry English insti tutions in the abstract, we are forced to admit that official statements made by a Prime Minister are usually borne out .by 'facts, etc." Who does not see that the writer is under the im

pression that to be a good American patriot he must of neces

sity be a hater of England, and " decry" English institutions !

The idea is altogether erroneous?it is fearfully and danger ously wrong. True patriotism does not require us to depreciate or condemn other nations. Sincerely and ardently to love our own country does not oblige us to underrate or decry the in stitutions of another. We ought to admire excellences, and love goodness and truth wherever they are found.

Let us cherish a spirit of pure and unselfish patriotism?a spirit of love and concord. In short, let us avoid every thing that tends to animosity ; and endeavor to become not only good patriots, but, peace patriots :?having on our banner the well selected words of the Angel "peace on earth and good will toward men." W.

" MEN WANTED !"

BY HENRY MARTIN) KENT, ENGLAND.

" The great want of the age is men ; men who are not for

Sale;?men who are honest, sound from centre to circumfer ence ;"?men who hold honesty to be always the best policy, and dishonesty, both in word and deed, from the constitution of things, a folly and shocking bad policy, and more so to them selves than to those they impose on ;?men who would rather lose than cheat:?men who keep out of debt;?men who, next to honesty, regard generosity to be the most captivating and

profitable principle any person can practise ;?" men who will condemn wrong in friend or foe, in themselves as well as others" ;?men who will do right by Christian means at all risks ?** men who neither brag nor run" ;?men who do their own thinking ;?" men in whom the current of religious faith runs still and strong for sectarian limits, but too strong for sec tarian bonds ;"?men who are no wise disheartened by the small success which has too often attended the best endeavours of the benevolent to rectify the disorders of society, and who will not slacken their labours till judgment be set up in the

earth, and mankind are as happy as it is possible for them to be in this world ;?men who act on the belief that diffusing happi ness is the greatest godliness ;?men who think more of the

essential, broad equality of mankind, than of the accidental, temporary points of precedence which obtain a,mong them ;?

men who serve their day and generation otherwise than for

pay ;?men who look on living only for self, as ignoble and dis creditable ;?men who hold charity to be more important than

disputable doctrine;?men who make the golden rule of 44 Doing as they would be done by", their polar star in their

dealings and intercourse with mankind ;?men who are too large hearted to refuse to co-operate with those of a different religion for the benefit of their fellow creatures ;?men who will side with the poor, but not flitter them ;?men who will work for the good of society though they have but one talent ;?men who will pity the wrongdoer more then they blame him ;?men who set the highest value on truthfulness ;?men who regard the Deity as the source of all real good, and, therefore, look for it from him, and on all human instrumentality but as the

medium of its communication ;?men who will not lire by the

follies, vices, or bad habits of others ;?men, no matter their

grade, who know their place and faithfully fill it ;?men who

prefer work to idleness, and who think work dignifies ;?men who are not too proud to b%e thought poor;?men who by ex

ample, precept, and action will do their utmost by moral sua sion and through legislative enactment to banish from society

two pernicious articles, Alcoholic Liquors and Tobacco ;?men who choose to obey God and their own conscience rather than man ;?men who love Humanity better than their country ;? men who hold moral principle to be ?s binding on nations and

governments as it is on individual persons ;?men who regard mankind as but one family, and, therefore, look on th? custom

of War as fratricide on an immense scale, and strive for its abo

lition accordingly ;?men who recognise the fact that disinterest

ed philanthropy was the grand principle which prompted Jesus

Christ to appear on earth, to go about doing good, and sacri

fice his life for man's temporal and everlasting benefit, and, therefore, that the same principle, made manifest in action, is an essential and a prominent characteristic of all his true dis

ciples;?men who see and own a brother, in every man howev er poor, or low, or wicked he is ;?men who resolve they will not be an incongruity in God^ dominions, but that in moral

glory their lives shall be in harmony with the physical glory of

the magnificent creation which surrounds them ;?men who aim

that the world shall be the better for their living in it ;?men whose motives are pure, and who, therefore, are deaf to the

imputation of unworthy ones finally, men, who do not grow

weary in well doing. It hardly needs to be added, that though the terra Women

does not occur in the above text, it is nevertheless implied, and

meant to be understood equally with Men.

HAIR AND WAR.

BY HOWARD MALCOM, T>. D.

Every reader of history must see how often bloody wars'

have grown out of the flimsiest causes. This is readily account

ed for by the fact that war was what Noah Worcester the great

originator of the American Peace Society, calls a custom. It

was resorted to, like duelling, in all disputes. In the twelfth century, the French clergy made violent oppo

sition to long hair and beards. Ijouis VII. conformed to the

new edict, shaving his beard and cutting short his hair. H?

wife Eleanor was disgusted, and protested that she had married

a prince, and he had turned monk. A divorce resulted?it is

said at her instigation. Henry of Anjou, afterward Henry II.

of England, married her. But the match was unhappy. His

wife fomented disputes, first with his brother, and then with

his four sons ; and a series of wars was commenced which lasted

for centuries. An old historian says, "

upwards of three mil

lions of Frenchmen perished, because an archbishop was of

fended with long hair, a king cut his hair and shaved his beard, and a queen looked upon short hair and smooth chin as ridicu

lous."

The War system cost England in 1868, exactly 100 Guineas

per minute, night and day, throughout the whole year ! Men

and brethern! how much longer do you mean to put up with

the Enormity of War? The exercise of common sense, and

union with your fellow-men in other lands, would soon put an

everlasting end to this wretched, villainous policy, by which

thousands of innocent people suffer terribly, and the strongest

party beats, and dictates terms, right or wrong. Working men, and others, abroacT, are now making efforts, as they never

did before, for its abolition. Why not join hands with them ?

Resistance to War by the working classes, would soon shame

Rulers out of carrying on such a veritably diabolical system. God and all good men would be on your side. Working men

hive only to refuse to be made food for cannon, and War must

forthwith cease. With the War-abolit?onists of other coun

tries, go in for, and insist on, a general and simultaneous dis

arming among civilized nations, and permanent Arbitration for

adjusting international disputes ; these are propositions pointed to by common sense, being at once, Christian?safe?rational

just?wise?friendly?easy?and cheap.

Mr. Melvill savs, " If war would altogether cease, were

vital Christianity diffused, then wemustregard it as at variance

with Christianity, whatever splendors may be thrown around it

by its achievements and apologists."

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