adds, that, at this time, the care and piety of the Christians towards all, evidently approved itself to all the Gentiles that were about them; they being the only persons that, during this sad and calamitous state of things, performed the real offices of mercy and humanity : the fame whereof filled the ears and mouths of all men, who extolled the God of the Christians, and confessed that they had shewed themselves to be the only truly pious and religious persons. And, indeed, the charity was the more remarkable, in that the Christians, at the very time, were under a most heavy persecution.

"Thus in the terrible plague that, in the time of Gallus and Volusius, raged so much through the whole world, especially at Carthage, when innumerable multitudes were swept away every day, and the streets filled with the carcases of the dead; every one trembling, flying, and shifting for themselves, deserting their nearest friends and kindred, none staying, unless it was to make a prey-In this sad and miserable case, Cyprian, then bishop of the place, calls the Christians together, and instructs them in the duties of mercy and charity. . . . . Immediately upon this, they unanimously agreed to assist their common enemies, every one lending help, according to his rank and quality.

"Such was the temper, such the carriage of Christians towards them that were without; within themselves they maintained the most admirable peace and harmony, and were, in a manner, of one heart and soul."-See Primitive Christianity; or, the Religion of the Ancient Christians in the first Ages of the Gospel, by William Cave, D.D.

FINIS.

. CLAY, PRINTER. BREAD-STREET-HILL.

Tract No. X. of the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace.

PRINCIPLES WHICH ARE CONSIDERED TO SUPPORT
THE PRACTICE OF WAR."

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THE Author of the following Treatise is already known to our readers, by a Work entitled " An Examination of the Principles which are considered to support the practice of War," and which is the Eighth of the Series of Tracts published by the Peace Society. The happy combination of literary talent and of correct moral principles displayed in that Tract has rarely been excelled; and the promise it gave of excellency in the future productions of the Author is amply realized in the following admirable review of the belligerent history of mankind. And the Committee of the Peace Society feel that it is due to the amiable Author to acknowledge their obligations to her, for having devoted her time and talents to the Christian cause in which they are engaged, and for her kind permission to adopt the following excellent Treatise as one of the standard Tracts of the Peace Society.

Possessed of pre-eminent talents which could not fail of commanding notice and distinction in the popular walks of Literature, the moral merit of the Author is enhanced by her having consecrated them to the less popular, but more hallowed purpose of stripping of its false halo of glory, and exposing in its true light, the destructive career of the warrior. If by thus consecrating her intellectual endowments to the establishment of correct moral principles, she may not attain to that ephemeral popularity so much in request by her contemporaries, this loss will be more than compensated by the approbation of the wise and good, and, above all, of that almighty and beneficent Being with whom even a cup of water administered in his name will not lose its reward.

April, 1831.