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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 24, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 12.

WAR APPROPRIATIONS.

By T.

Much has been said about the promptness with which the United States Congress voted $50,000,000 as an initial appropriation in meeting the expense if war with Spain shall be declared. But the United States is not alone in her war appropriations. The czar of Russia has just set aside $65,000,000 for the construction of war ships and the equipment of his navy. And the estimate for naval expenditure presented to the British Parliament on March 10, is $127,750,000.

Every nation is closely and jealously watching every other. And all are straining their resources in their preparations for war. The question is often anxiously asked, Where will it end? He who is closely studying his Bible can readily answer that it will end in that great and final battle of Armageddon. And in this time when above all others men should be preparing for the coming of the Prince of Peace, how successfully is Satan absorbing their minds in the cruel preparations for war! T.