War Expenditures and the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is one of the greatest undertakings of the centuries. When successfully completed, it will be a fine monument to engineering skill and human endeavor. It will have cost many millions of dollars, and much has been said in regard to the enormous expense of the great enterprise. But have you ever stopped to consider that the United States spends more every year in keeping herself prepared for war than it would take to build a Panama Canal? Think of it! One of the greatest of the civilized nations spends more than enough each twelve months to complete such a stupendous commercial enterprise—an enterprise that would be ever after a benefit to mankind; and all of that vast sum spent annually for nothing more than purposes of destruction. The outlook for peace can not be very strong when our nation feels compelled to spend so much on war in order to keep prepared to cope with the other nations who are making similar preparations. Facts of this character ought to enable men to see clearly that we are in the time foretold when the spirits of demons would arouse the whole world for war. There has never appeared in human history a more striking fact than the absolute fit that the war conditions of to-day make to the Bible prophecies concerning them.