“BEATING SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES.”
A short time ago a peculiar object was exhibited in the Alabama Salon at Genera. It is a bright new ploughshare, and was a present from the Philadelphian to the Genevan branch of the Universal League of Peace. The history of this svmbol of peace is a curious one. At the 100th jubilee of the foundation of the North American Republic, which was celebrated in 1876, a number of military officers, who were present at the great meeting of the League, gave up their swords, making a solemn promise that they would never use them again. On the motion of an imaginative and hopeful member of the League, it was resolved that these swords should bo carried to a smithy in order that they might be beaten into a ploughshare, ana thus fulfil the Scriptural prophecy. A sum of money was enthusiastically voted, and the ploughshare was made. It was afterwards on show at the Universal .Exhibitions of Philadelphia and of Paris, and after the close of the latter, instead of again being shipped across the Atlantic, it was resolved that it should he left in Europe as a sort of silent missionary, and be presented to the Geneva League of Peace.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume 2, Issue 132, 17 December 1879, Page 3
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