“Ideals as to what should be the attitude of different nations and different classes toward each other, Christian people already have. Surely it is high time that we should also have definite ideas as to the weapons we are justified in using in seeking to bring about conditions that seem to us to be desirable.”

—  Kirby Page

Foreword p. 9
The Sword or the Cross, Which Should be the Weapon of the Christian Militant? (1921)

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