redemptive. Not merely for the salvation of the wronged, but also for the reclamation of the one who wrongs was the cross uplifted, and when man visits man with death, he exercises a form of punishment which shuts out the possibility of a remedy. In the light of the Christian era war finds no justification, and capital punishment has no place. There are other forms of murder in these latter days, which are peculiarly the product of the age, and which are hardly ever named murder, because it is difficult