His wounding is repeated, and His teaching trampled under foot. The simple facts should be kept in mind. Life is of God. To take it, as to give it, is His prerogative. Man has no right to do so, save where immediately delegated to the work by the express command of the Most High. In this dispensation of grace, God never delegates this right to man. Those, then, who are His, must decline to have any complicity with war, raise their protest against punishment which takes life, refuse to have profit