p. 5 | Christ Forbade War by Andrew Carnegie

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 22, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 37.

Christ Forbade War

By Andrew Carnegie

NOTHING can be clearer than that the leaders of Christianity, immediately succeeding Christ, from whom authentic expressions of doctrines have come down to us, were well assured that their Master has forbidden to the Christian the killing of men in war or the enlisting in the legions. One of the chief differences which separated Roman non-Christians and Christians was the refusal of the latter to enlist in the legions and be thus bound to kill their fellows in war as directed. Apparently in no field of its work in our times does the Christian church throughout the whole world, with outstanding individual exceptions of course, so conspicuously fail as in its attitude to war.—Andrew Carnegie.