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and Failures
GREAT HUMAN TRAGEDIES
OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
DATES and
CONFLICTS
190Q-1901
ESTIMATED
WAR DEATHS
Boxer Rebellíon in China
1,000
1904· 190 5
Russo-Japanese War
1912·1913
Balkan Wars
1914·1918
World War
1
1917·1920
130,000
140,000
8,545,800
Russian Nationalities War
(lncludes the Bolshevik
Revolution and the Russian
Civil War)
100,000
19 36-1939
Spanish Civil War
1939-1945
World War 11
1945·1 954
lndochina War
1948· 1962
611 ,000
55,000,000
100,000
" La Violencia" - a period of
civil unrest in Colombia 200,000
195Q-1953
Korean War
1964·1973
1,893,100
Period of U.S. intervention
in Vietnam
546,000
TOTAL 67,266,900
Note: The total number of deaths in
the conflicts listed above would be
the equivalent of removing the
popu lations of Finl and, l celand,
lreland, Norway, and the United
Kingdom from off the tace of the
earth.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica,
and Darkest Hours by J.R. Nash.
Boxer Rebelhon- U.S mannes lake
part 1n the delense ol lhe wau o f Pek1ng
dunng the Chinese atlempt lo end
lore1gn exploitation.
Workers· demonstraloons tike
thts one
on
Petrograd lanned
the
llames
ol
the
RuSSían RevokJ1100
World War t-Weary French delenders
at the batlle of Verdun. More !han
675,000
casualhes were suffered by bolh s1des
in this one brutal carnpa,gn
World War
11- 1940.
German trOOPS enter
París The quiet thal ensued was only the
lutl belore the storm
with the gover nment of GQd
admi nistered by t he return i ng
Jesus Christ. Most articles in this
magazine refer to that great event,
connecting it with the ultimate
answer to whatever problem o r
problems are under d iscussion.
Sorne, however, have misunder–
stood. They háve concluded we are
saying that the solutions to all the
wor ld's ills will not be available
until Jesus Christ comes again and
sets everything right.
Not so!
The answers to many of man–
kind 's problems are already here!
They have been available from the
beg in n in g ! The B i ble records
d ivinely revealed laws that would
eliminate the problems humani ty is
faci ng. These laws work when they
are applied . Stunning examples
exist in the world of individuals or
groups who have knowingly or un–
knowingly obeyed cer tain of tbese
laws and who have been plentifully
rewarded as a result.
But such examples are all too
rare. For t he mos t part , t hese
divinely ordained laws have not
been applied. T hey have been
ignored and sometimes even sup–
pressed.
You don ' t t hink members o f
" enlightened" societies would t reat
tru th tha t way? J ust take one
example. Consider tbe suffering
produced by smoking. He re is a
leg i t im ate p r obl e m-on e t hat
causes human suffer ing. Surely in
any civil ized nation it is a rare per–
son involved in the growing, pro–
duction or smoking of tobacco who
is not aware of the pbysical evi–
dence showing smoking can be
injurious to health. Does the mere
fact of realizing tbat stop the pro-
~ l iferation
of. smoking-induced dis–
cases?
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No, it does not. Tobacco prod–
ll! ...;
ucts continue to be produced, sold
and used. The very governments
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that, by one agency, warn of the
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hazards of smoking, often , by
¡
another agency, subsid ize with tax–
~
payers' moneys the production of
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tobacco. T he toll in ravaged health
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continues apace.
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When J esus returns to earth, he
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will not need to reveaJ sorne hit her–
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to unsuspected cause of tobacco–
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induced ills. T he causes are already
t:
ide ntified. The solution, too , is
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