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as a disgrace, and a calamity. When he was forced into it, his heart revolted.

Yet these were heathen emperors. They had never received the gospel, which breathes "peace and good will to man." The law of Moses did not forbid war. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," was the maxim of the Jewish people. But the law of Jesus Christ is a law of peace. "I say unto you, that ye resist not evil," were the words not only of his lips, but of his example. His command to his disciples was, "see that ye love one another."

The spirit of war, therefore, was not condemned by the Jewish law, or by the creeds of the heathen. But it is contrary to the spirit of the gospel.