 | Abiel Abbot - Sermons, American - 1831 - 414 pages
...and younglion together, and a little child should lead Them; and men should beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks, and learn war no more." Would to God that in this respect there were brighter tokens of an approaching millenium. To promote... | |
 | Peace - 1831 - 670 pages
...encouraging, for we have the promise of God, that wars shall cease and that men shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks and learn war no more, for the mouth of the Lord of boats himself hath spoken it. Past experience also teaches u?, that delusions... | |
 | Religion - 1834 - 400 pages
...communities, and nations, what a delightful world would this be ! Then would men " beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and learn war no more. Violence should hot be heard in the land, wasting nor destruction within our borders. The wolf also... | |
 | Religion - 1834 - 496 pages
...communities, and nations, what a delightful world would this be ! Then would men "beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and learn war no more. Violence should not be heard in the land, wasting nor destruction within our borders. The wolf also... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Education - 1836 - 474 pages
...philanthropy to reign triumphant — and to that glorious era foretold by ancient prophets, when the nations " shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and learn the art of war no more." Were history studied in connection with such views and instructions, instead... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - Unitarianism - 1838 - 370 pages
...cherish a fervent hope. We believe that the day will come, when " the nations will beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and learn war no more. " Christianity is advancing, it must advance; and as its influence gradually settles down amidst the... | |
 | John Henry Bernau - Guiana - 1847 - 296 pages
...that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." Then the nations shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. And then shall it be said " the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ."... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1878 - 668 pages
...And it is when this shall have become universal and pervading that men "will beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and learn war no more " (Isaiah ii. 4). I know of no " assigned reason for the urgency of the petition" beyond what may be... | |
 | Edward Payson - Congregational churches - 1849 - 622 pages
...kingdoms of our Lord and Saviour, who shall reign forever; a day in which men shall beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks, and learn war no more ; a day in which righteousness and peace and holy joy shall universally prevail. But if the Bible be... | |
 | Nathan Lewis Rice - Mesmerism - 1849 - 334 pages
...be dried' up. Happy in the love of God and of each other, the nations would beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and learn war no more. The scriptures make a powerful appeal to the will — placing before the mind motives of infinite moment,... | |
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The millennial days when nations shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks, and learn war no more, are yet, according to all existing indications, far in the future. 
