Killed and Wounded in the War
By Editor
THE International News Service has compiled the statistics of the admitted losses, in killed and wounded, by nine of the leading nations involved in Europe's war,— France, Great Britain, Russia, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Servia, Turkey, and Japan. The total number killed is 2,228,300, and the wounded are 4,836,190, or a total in killed and wounded of 7,064,490. It is perfectly safe to say that the actual losses are very much in excess of these official statistics, which have to do only with the men who have enlisted in the army. There are multiplied thousands of civilians, both men and women, who have lost their lives through the war; and when the totals of these are all brought together, they will present some of the most appalling figures of destruction that this world knows anything about. Our civilization in this time is largely a sham. There are many people to-day, it is true, who are as highly civilized as any who have ever lived; there are, without much question, some of the best men and women living to-day that any generation has ever produced. But while affirming these important facts, it is nevertheless true that the barbarism of this time is the worst that the world has ever known. The appalling facts all about us stubbornly force this conclusion upon us. Men for the past generation, like parrots, have been learning to say that the world is growing better; but God's word has clearly told us, all the time, that the world was getting worse and worse. The facts and God's word are in harmony. The parrot phrases telling of a world growing better are a fatal delusion.