and not on present exciting causes, are always slow, but they are sure. The very vis inertia of the public mind, which prevents a rapid advancement, forbids a sudden revulsion. Therefore moral revolutions seldom or never go back. What then have we to do but to press forward under the banner of the PRINCE OF PEACE? We have Jehovah's promise, that the cause of Peace shall finally succeed. We may not live to see that success. God is taking from us one chief after another, that we may learn not to put our trust in frail man, but in the ever-living God and in His promises. Then, let the mortality to which we are subject, excite us to diligence in our work. Let us be up and doing whatever our hands find to do, that when we depart from this world, we may secure the blessing which awaits the peace-makers, that "they shall be called the children of God." RESOLVES OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY. Resolved 1st., That the Executive department be removed for the present, to the city of Hartford, in the State of Connecticut. Resolved 2d., That the General Agent of the American Peace Society, and J. P. Blanchard, Esq., be a Committee to attend to the prize essays on a Congress of Nations, and if the persons to whom it at present belongs to adjudge the prize, do not bring in an award, to appoint other gentlemen (in accordance with the views and wishes of Messrs. Dewey and Bacheler) well versed in the laws of nations, to complete the business as soon as practicable. Resolved 3d., That the General Agent be empowered to present to Churches and Congregations taking up contributions, in favor of the Society, bound volumes of the Harbinger of Peace, and other Peace publications, to the value of half the amount of their contributions. Resolved 4th., That the General Agent be empowered to stereotype three Tracts for account of the American Peace So. ciety, Resolved 5th., That the General Agent be empowered to subscribe for one hundred copies of the Manual of Peace. Resolved 6th, That the General Agent be empowered to appoint a preaching agent for three months. Resolved 7th., That the next Anniversary be at New York, in the Anniversary week. At a regular meeting held at the Tract Society House, New York City, on the 15th of May, 1835, the above Resolutions were passed. |