European Armies | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 19, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 20.

European Armies.

The London Chronicle says: “A German military critic has been adding up the grand total of the continental armies, and, after noting that we can form only a vague idea of what is meant by tens of millions, he tries to bring home to his readers in another way the colossal growth of modern armaments. If, he says, we could have all the armies of the continent on a war footing and drawn up in one long procession, with their guns and ammunition and baggage wagons, the column would be rather more than 24,000 miles long, and, marching day and night, it would take nearly a year to pass a given point.” Is it any wonder that the people are uneasy under the war burdens? Is it any wonder that revolution and anarchy are ripe? Truly, we see the fulfilment of Joel’s words, “Prepare war.” See Joel 3:9–12.