Top Highlights

• THE DOCTRINE OF NON-RESISTANCE TO EVIL BY FORCE HAS BEEN PROFESSED BY A MINORITY OF MEN FROM THE VERY FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY.
• the Quakers gave me details of their own so-called sect, which for more than two hundred years has actually professed the teaching of Christ on non-resistance to evil by force, and does not make use of weapons in self-defense.
• exposed the error of the Church's teaching in allowing war and capital punishment.
• the wounding and killing of men—is inconsistent with a religion founded on peace and good will toward men,
• "DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS ADOPTED BY PEACE CONVENTION.    "Boston, 1838.