p. 278 | THE THREATENED WAR

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · May 5, 1885

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 18

THE THREATENED WAR.

The Interior of April 23, 1885, thus remarks concerning the war now threatened between England and Russia:—

We have looked upon the threatened war between England and Russia with apprehension and sympathy for England. Great Britain is the most highly civilized, and under the ministry of Gladstone, the most Christian government, aside from our own, in the world. It is by far the richest of empires, and its wealth, so widely scattered, so much of it afloat, is more exposed to destruction than that of any other. The Russians, if they are not to be compared to the English at sea, could effect great destruction of the property of private individuals by swift piratical cruisers. The life of one Saxon is worth more to the world than that of a score of the barbarous Cossacks of Asia and Eastern Europe. When the Turkish Cossacks fight, the destruction of life is of little consequence to the world than that which results from the tribal wars in mid-Africa; but the shedding of British blood is a waste of a civilization of the highest value. That England should be compelled to grapple in destructive warfare with a huge barbaric power like Russia is a calamity to the whole world.