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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 24, 1874

News and Miscellany.

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

What War Has Done.

Dr. Dick puts the number of men in all ages killed by war at fourteen thousand millions; while Edmund Burke estimates it at thirty-five thousand millions. Four or five millions are constantly under arms, producing nothing. What fine emigrants they would make! The annual war charge for the world is $2,600,000,000, while only $5,000,000 is paid for Christian missions. This puts an awful burden on labor, forcing it to pay $500,000,000 per day before its own wants are begun to be provided for. The aggregate war debt of the world is $23,000,000,000. 83 per cent of the income of Great Britain goes for war-like purposes, leaving only 17 per cent for other objects. The total value of the United States is estimated at $30,000,000,000. The war debt of the world would completely buy it up.