Russian War Clouds

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 17, 1871

Russian War Clouds.

THE military movements in Russia indicate that war is expected at no distant day. When Russia moves again upon the battlefield, we expect the closing scenes of the present dispensation are not far in the future. At the present time, there is such an accumulation of evidences in favor of Christ’s speedy coming, that we do not see how any one at all familiar with the prophetic Scriptures, and the history of the past and present, can doubt that “the last days” have truly come.

A close observer of affairs in the old world says:—

“‘It is well known that Russia during the past year has been using every effort to prepare for eventualities. The Czar is represented as having been engaged very recently, accompanied by General Leflo, the French Minister, in exercising his armies on a grand scale, training whole corps d’armee in the laying of temporary railways, and generally giving indication of military activity. It is said to be impossible not to notice that the vicinities of all the barracks show a great stir. Hospital wagons and camp-equipage are being repaired and put in order. The cartridge factories are humming constantly, turning out half a million metallic shells daily. Additional orders for Gatling guns have been sent to the United States. The Russians have now over three hundred of these terrible engines of war.’”

—World’s Crisis.