Channing's Sermon on War, 1816
Portrait of Channing
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- William Ellery Channing, minister of the Federal Street Church in Boston, formed the
Peace Society of Massachusetts on December 28th, 1815. The foundation of this organization
emanated from Channing's earlier work with a group of Congregational ministers to better
inform public perception of the brutality of war.
- Channing often used his sermons to express his opposition to the War of 1812. Here, he
details typical horrors and miseries of war and notes a contradiction between public
damnation of isolated violence and public acceptance of the "idea of human beings
employing every power and faculty in the work of mutual destruction."
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