When William Penn made his treaty with the Indians under the
spreading branches of an elm-tree on the banks of the Delaware,
it was not for lands, but for peace and friendship. “We meet,”
said Penn, “in the broad pathway of good faith and good will;
no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be
openness and love. I will not call you children, for parents
sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only,
for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will
not compare to a chain, for that the rains might rust, or the
falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man’s body
were to be divided into two parts; we are all one flesh and
blood.” The Indians replied: “We will live in love with William
Penn and his children as long as the sun and moon shall endure.”
Such a peace pact does God make with men; and such a pact ought man and
man, and nation and nation to make with each other.
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=Peace Predicted=--See AGE, THE NEW.