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9 Advoc. Peace 1 (1851)

handle is hein.journals/wrldaf9 and id is 1 raw text is: ,ADVOCATE OF PEACE./ JAN AND FEB., 1851. ONE PROOF OF SUCCESS IN THE CAUSE OF PEACE. IT is more difficult in this cause than in almost any other, to ascertain precisely how much has already been accomplished. It lacks the usual criteria of- success, the proofs and measurement of progress found in most enterprises, whether of benevoletce or reform. We cannot speak of the pledges taken, as in the temperance movement; of the missionaries sent forth, the churches organized, and the converts received into their bosom, as in the cause of missions; or of the publications circulated, as in Tract and Bible Societids. The success may be as real, but is not so easity-seen, nor so readily admitted. This results in part from the nature of the case; because the. effect of all our efforts is intentionally diffused like leaven through the community, and embodied in their altered tone of thought and feeling. Now, such changes are necessarily so gradual, that the unre flecting will not perceive them,.the skeptical will not acknowledge them, and the mass .will heedlessly attribute them, when too obvious for doubt or denial, to the ordinary aencies at work for the improvement of man- kind. They may be very onest in these egregious mistakes; for they are generally so ignorant o what the cause of peace has actually done, as to resemble the man who should stoutly contend, that the triumphs of tem- perance have resulted, not at all froi the special efforts of its associated friends, but entirely from the general influences of Christianity diffused through the community, without any specific application or reference to this particular department of reform. It would be easy to fill a volume with proofs in detail of the progress which the cause of peace has already made; but let us take a single one in the present state of our own militia system, contrasted with what it was when the friends of peace began their efforts thirty-five years ago. If was then in its full vigor and glory; but now its drills are, in a few States, en- tirely suspended; in most, very much neglected, and in all, held in great comparative, disrepute. In half of New, England, there are no trainings. voL. .I1. - NO. !. - KONTMLY. 1

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