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4i8 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
However desirable the abolition of all wars may
be, yet until the morals and manners of mankind are
greatly changed, it will be found impracticable. We
are taught that national sins will be punished, and war
is one of the punishments. The prophets predict wars
at so late a period as the restoration of the Israelites.
Who or what can hinder the occurrence of those wars ?
I nevertheless believe, and have perfect faith in the
prophecy, that the time will come when " the nations
will beat their swords into ploughshares, and their
spears into pruning-hooks ; when nation shall not lift
up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war
any more." But does not this prophecy clearly imply, and give us plainly to understand, that in the
meanwhile, and until the arrival of that blessed period,
the nations will not beat their swords into ploughshares, nor their spears into pruning-hooks ; that
nation will not forbear to lift up sword against
nation, nor cease to learn war?
It may be asked, Are we to do nothing to hasten
the arrival of that happy period? Literally, no
created being can either accelerate or retard its arrival. It will not arrive sooner nor later than the
appointed time.
There certainly is reason to expect, that as great
providential events have usually been preceded and
introduced by the intervention of providential means
to prepare the way for them, so the great event in
question will be preceded and introduced in like
manner. It is, I think, more than probable, that the
unexpected and singular co-operation and the extra-
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 4 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000445 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 4i8 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. However desirable the abolition of all wars may be, yet until the morals and manners of mankind are greatly changed, it will be found impracticable. We are taught that national sins will be punished, and war is one of the punishments. The prophets predict wars at so late a period as the restoration of the Israelites. Who or what can hinder the occurrence of those wars ? I nevertheless believe, and have perfect faith in the prophecy, that the time will come when " the nations will beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks ; when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." But does not this prophecy clearly imply, and give us plainly to understand, that in the meanwhile, and until the arrival of that blessed period, the nations will not beat their swords into ploughshares, nor their spears into pruning-hooks ; that nation will not forbear to lift up sword against nation, nor cease to learn war? It may be asked, Are we to do nothing to hasten the arrival of that happy period? Literally, no created being can either accelerate or retard its arrival. It will not arrive sooner nor later than the appointed time. There certainly is reason to expect, that as great providential events have usually been preceded and introduced by the intervention of providential means to prepare the way for them, so the great event in question will be preceded and introduced in like manner. It is, I think, more than probable, that the unexpected and singular co-operation and the extra- |
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