The Samoan form of surrender 162
Treaties of peace among savages 162
Abeyance of laws of war in hostilities with savages 163
Zulus blown up in caves with gun-cotton 165
Women and men kidnapped for transport service on the Gold Coast 166
Humane intentions of the Spaniards in the New World 167
Contrasted with the inhumanity of their actions 167
Wars with natives of English and French in America 170
High rewards offered for scalps 171
The use of bloodhounds in war 171
The use of poison and infected clothes 172
Penn’s treaty with the Indians 173
How Missionaries come to be a cause of war 176
Explanation of the failure of modern missions 178
The mission stations as centres of hostile intrigues 179
Plea for the State-regulation of missions 181
Depopulation under Protestant influences 181
The prevention of false rumours--_Tendenzlügen_ 182
Civilised and barbarian warfare 183
No real distinction between them 184
CHAPTER VII.
WAR AND CHRISTIANITY.
The war question at the time of the Reformation 185
The remonstrances of Erasmus against the custom 186
Influence of Grotius on the side of war 187
The war question in the early Church 188
The Fathers against the lawfulness of war 190
Causes of the changed views of the Church 192
The clergy as active combatants for over a thousand years 193
Fighting bishops 193
Bravery in war and ecclesiastical preferment 196
Pope Julius II. at the siege of Mirandola 197
The last fighting bishop 197
Origin and meaning of the declaration of war 198
Superstition in the naming of weapons, ships, &c. 200
The custom of kissing the earth before a charge 201
Connection between religious and military ideas 202
The Church as a pacific agency 204
Her efforts to set limits to reprisals 207
The altered attitude of the modern Church 208
Early Reformers only sanctioned _just_ wars 208
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