Читать книгу Mennonites in the World War - Jonas Smucker Hartzler - Страница 51

But even those who will not accept the Bible teaching on this point have ample reason for op posing war. Think of the war just past. It lasted four years, three months and thirteen days; it cost the combined nations the enormous sum of two hundred billion dollars; it swept millions of people in to eternity; it has left millions more cripples for life; it has left some once powerful and wealthy countries all but bankrupt, and all of those involved, decidedly poorer; and now calls for reconstruction work requiring the expenditure of hundreds of mil lions of dollars and many years of time. Besides this, thousands of people have died of starvation brought on by the war, and will require the cooperation of Christendom if thousands more do not die from the same cause. War has been variously denned by General Sherman and others, but language fails one to define this war.