p. 16 | The World's Method

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 28.

The World's Method.

“Avenge the Maine,” “Remember the Maine,” are prominent slogans among the clans gathering to battle. But, O, what a losing remedy is that of vengeance! In a recent number of the London Review of Reviews the editor tells us:—

“To avenge the Bulgarian atrocities the Russians invaded Turkey, and for every Bulgarian man, woman, and child who had been massacred by the Turks, two Russian soldiers fell in battle or died of disease, and probably at least double that number of non-combatant peasants—Bulgarian, Armenian, and Turkish—were done to death between contending armies. The Bulgarian atrocities were avenged, no doubt, but at a very low computation it cost five lives to avenge one.”

A religious exchange truly says: “The remedy is truly worse than the disease. War, as a cure for inhumanity, is very much like suffocating a man to death to cure the asthma. Nevertheless, it is the best remedy the world knows. O, that men would learn that the Gospel of Christ solves every perplexity and heals every ill!”