he teaching of
the Twelve Apostles. This answer is not merely words, as those may
imagine who are accustomed to think that the recommendation of love to
one's enemies is something hyperbolical, and signifies not that which
expressed, but something else. This answer is the indication of a very
clear and definite activity, and of its consequences.

To love one's enemies--the Japanese, the Chinese, those yellow people
toward whom benighted men are now endeavoring to excite our hatred--to
love them means not to kill them for the purpose of having the right of
poisoning them with opium, as did the English; not to kill them in order
to seize their land, as was done by the French, the Russians, and the
Germans; not to bury them alive in punishment for injuring roads, not to
tie them together by their hair, not to drown them in their river Amur,
as did the Russians.

"A disciple is not above his master.... It is enough for a disciple that
he be as his master."

To love the yellow people, whom we call our foes, means, not to teach
them under the name of Christianity absurd superstitions about the fall
of man, redemption, resurrection, etc., not to teach them the art of
deceiving and killing others, but to teach them justice, unselfishness,
compassion, love--and that not by words, but by the example of our own
good life. And what have we been doing to them, and are still doing?

If we did indeed love our enemies, if even now we began to love our
enemies, the Japanese, we would have no enemy.

Therefore, however strange it may appear to those occupied with military
plans, preparations, diplomatic considerations, administrative,
financial, economical measures, revolutionary, socialistic propaganda,
and various unnecessary sciences, by which they think to save mankind
from its calamities, the deliverance of man, not only from the calamities
of war, but also from all the calamities which men inflict upon
themselves, will take place not through emperors or kings instituting
peace alliances, not through those who would dethrone emperors, kings, or
restrain them by constitutions, or substitute republics for monarchies,
not by peace conferences, not by the realization of socialistic
programmes, not by victories or defeats on land or sea, not by libraries
or universities, nor by those futile mental exercises which are now
called science; but only by there being more and more of those simple men
who, like the Dukhobors, Drojjin, Olkho