WAR AND MURDER | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 16, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 33.

WAR AND MURDER.

A GENTLEMAN bearing one of the most respected names our commonwealth has ever known, sends us this:—

In calmest mind, to serve some unknown will, I swore in soldiers' uniform to kill; I slaughtered men who never injured me, Yet that I am a hero, all agree. If [sudden wrath] I smote with deadly blow One I had cause to feel a hated foe; Then, in the eyes of all, a monster I, And doomed to death upon the gallows high. Amazed, I ask why people should abhor A single murder, while they shout for war? One's fame who kills a thousand widely rings; Who takes one life, upon a scaffold swings! —Our Dumb Animals.