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The World at War

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 27, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 18.

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The World at War.

THE whole world seems to be in a state of convulsion. Germany and Denmark are still in arms—England looks on uneasily, France is kept quiet only at the point of the bayonet. Poland is always under the Russian heel. Italy, Austria, and Spain, watch the progress of events vigilantly. Russia is rapidly constructing an iron-clad navy. The Swedish navy is already on a war-footing, and one squadron has gone to sea. All the great Powers of Europe mistrust each other's intentions; and it would seem that only a slight provocation was needed to precipitate the whole eastern Continent into war.
It is the same on the other side of the Atlantic. Besides our own great struggle for national life, Mexico is torn by intestine troubles, Chili and Peru are at loggerheads, and the South American States generally are in a chronic state of uproar and confusion. The whole world seems tending to war most rapidly.