Excerpt from Necessities of the War and the Conditions of Success in It: A Sermon Preached in the Village Church, Before the College and the United Congregations of the Town of Amherst, on the National Fast Day, Thursday, September 26, 1861 I begin with the proposition that war is sometimes lawful. I say some times, for none of us can justify wars of ambition, or wars of revenge or wars of plunder. But wars for self-defense, for national existence, for the punishment of conspiracy and trea son, for putting down rebellion, for the support of government and the maintenance of God's justice in civil relations, come under a different category. Whether they are right or wrong, in the ln dividual case, must depend on circumstances, and particularly on the motives with which they are undertaken, and the measure of necessity which demands them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.