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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Oh," cried Grace, "that's just dreadful! I hope there will never be a war where such terrible guns will be used never any more at all; but that very soon, as the Bible says, the people 'shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
And if the event should ever come to pass, which most Christians expect, that men will one day or other turn their swords and their spears into ploughshares and pruning-hooks, they, who live in that day, will applaud the perseverance of the Quakers in this case, and weep over the obstinacy and inconsistency of those who combated their opinions.
Her hills hold stores of iron, copper, coal and other minerals. Her soil is ready to yield many-fold to the courageous cultivator. When the swords have been turned into plough-shares and the spears to pruning-hooks, there will come a new day for the native Cuban.
No word of war is breathed; hushed is the clang of arms in these announcements; and the sanguine recruit is almost tempted to expect that pruning-hooks, instead of swords, will be the weapons he will wield. Alas! is not this the cruel stratagem of Brace at Bannockburn, who decoyed to his war-pits by covering them over with green boughs?
Better days are coming some think near at hand. Turning a seer's eye on futurity, Isaiah descried them in the far distance saw the reign of the Prince of Peace Jesus crowned King of kings and Lord of lords swords beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks every man, whether at hall or cottage door, sitting under the shade of his vine and fig-tree the whole earth quiet, and at rest.
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