Where, in the religion of Christ, can one find the sanction for massacre?
It is nowhere to be found except in the Psalms of the senile sensualist--in the commands of Moses, the leader of the marauders of the desert.

Christ swept away the barbarities of the teaching of Moses.

He perceived how miserably it had failed; how it had retarded all that was good in man, and sanctioned all that was evil.

He perceived how it had kept the nation in a condition of barbarity; how it had made it the prey of the civilized nations around it; how it had made the Hebrew nations the contempt of civilization; and yet the Church that calls itself the Church of Christ has not yet had the courage to offer humanity anything but that impossible task--the amalgamation of the law that came by Moses and the grace and truth that came by Jesus Christ." He spoke with all the fervor of the preacher, with pale face, brilliant eyes, and clenched hands; but in a voice adapted to a drawing room.
Phyllis of Philistia could not but admit that, in the phrase of Philistia he had spoken in perfect taste.

He had not alluded definitely to the boldness of Ruth or to the calorific course accepted by the aged David.