p. 72 | New Weapons of War

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1867

New Weapons of War.

ALL nations are taxing their ingenuity and energies to the utmost to provide the most formidable and destructive weapons of war. What is the object of all this? Is it that they may soon beat them into ploughshares and into pruning-hooks? and learn war no more? Is it not rather a preparation for the battle of the great day of God Almighty? From an article in the Scientific American, of Jan. 5, 1867, credited to the “Leipsic Illustrated,” we gather the following facts:

“The Emperor of France not wishing to remain behind other nations in the possession of an effective fire-arm, has adopted the invention of M. Chassepot. This gun resembles the original Prussian needle gun over which it possesses certain improvements. The Prussians seeing that all nations are making rapid progress in the perfection of their arms, do not want to be behind them; and Mr. Dreyse, the inventor of their needle gun is at work day and night, inventing and testing more powerful and destructive implements of war. He is also experimenting on a new breech-loading needle cannon, in which two barrels are arranged side by side, which can be managed so rapidly that eight shots are fired in a minute.”