News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1871

News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

The bombardment of Paris, if a true picture of it be given, is evidently frightful beyond description. The shells and shot go crashing in among the magnificent churches, palaces, art galleries, and parks, killing women and children, and making the sad havoc which such work must make in a beautiful and teeming city. The Germans will naturally be exasperated for this bombardment; but it's little they care for that. If they can bring the war to a close one week sooner, get home to their wives and families and workshops any more quickly, keep down their debt and taxes a million dollars by bombarding Paris, they will do it, let art critics and art worshipers berate them as they may. If Paris wants to save its beauty, let it surrender, they say. We have something to do that concerns us more nearly than to preserve the pictures, and statuary, and domes, and spires, of the Paris which shouted less than six months ago, “On to Berlin!”—Det. Post.