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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 51.

Vatican’s Obsolete Weapons

A CABLE to the New York Sun from Rome says that the pope has ordered that about 10,000 old swords, halberds, spears, and battle-axes in the Vatican armory be melted and the iron sold. The weapons are now useless except as curios. Like the nations of earth, the pope finds his army cumbered with obsolete weapons of war, and disposes of them as the nations do; all of which calls to mind the grim mockery of such things. Christ said, "I am come that ye might have life." His so-called vicegerent surrounds himself with a body-guard in whose hands are the instruments of violence and death.