The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-10
And When That is Accomplish
ed the Prince of Peace Will
Establish Kingdom.

WESTON. Sept. arthur G..
Daniels. of Washington, ID. c., presi-
dent OF the world conference of Sew
enth Day AdventIsts, gave some
startling figures concerning the hor-
ror of the European war in connec-
ton with his lecture on the Mean
ing Of the War in the Light of Proph-
ecy." He said: The reports of the
casualties for the two years of IN
precedented warfare are paralyzing.
Four million killed. eight million
wounded. four million missing to-
tai of sixteen million. And yet. after
these fearful losses. there are still
twenty millions OF men under arms:
and these millions, when called to
the front, were in the prime OF life.
They We're the strength and flower
of this generation.
Never before in the history of
the world have such armies been as
sembed on battlefelds. never has
warfare been so deadly, never has the
toll In wounded and dead been so
heavy, and never before has the cost
OF war in money been so great In
round numbers the two years war
has cost the nations engaged in it
fifty billions Of dollars. The aver
age cost has been about sixty-eight
million dollars a day. At the pres
ent time il costs one hundred million
dollars day. The total expense fo-
operating the government Of the
United States during 1915 was a lit
tie more than seven hundred million
dollars-,the amount required to
finance this great war only one week.
These figures are truly appalling.
EClipseS Al Others.
THE war now going on for ex.
ceeds in magnitude and waste and
ruin, any previous war Of which we
have any records.
= In the Napoleonic wars. cover
ing a period OF nineteen years. 1896
1916. the losses were six millions OF
men and the cost fifteen billion dol
lars.
THE losses in the war between
Great Britain and the United States,
1874, were 10000 men and $780,
100000.
THE Crimcan war, 1896. cost
100000 men and little less han
S2,UVO,UOV,UVV.
THE ton OF the Franco-Prussian
war, 1901. which has always
been considered heavy. was only
225,O0O men and S3,0O0.O0O,OO0.
The Boer war. 1S90-19O2. de-
stroyed $4,000 soldiers at a cost Of
S1,225,OOO,OO0.
In the Spanish-AmerIcan war.
1893, 5000 lives We're lost at an ex-
pense Of 100000.
The loss in the Russo-Japanese
war. 1904-l905, was heavy-55O, 900
men and nearly 100000, 900.
These seven great wars entend-
ing over a period of more than n
hundred years, record loss of less
than one-elghth million men. and an
expenditure OF less that twenty-five
billion dollars little less than half
the terrible destruction wrought in
two short years by the war in
progress.
Widows and Orphans.
This war has filled the world
with more sorrOwlng relatives,
fatherless children and broken
hearted widows than has any other
war since the world began. 1t would
seem that the terriblo destruction Ill
ready wrought would so appall the
rulers OF the nations involved thar
they would ind some way to bring
this struggle to an end. But 1t does
not. The combatants apparently
grow more determined as the war
lengthens.
1.-THE evidence Is abundant and
conclusive that the storm center of
this great war is the near East. But
this Is not a new storm center. I'll
has been the center OF stormy con-
diets for centuries, The war now