More Scrap-Iron

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 6, 1908

THE New York Independent of January 30, under the above heading, sets forth the great and ever-increasing accumulation of fighting ships by the great nations of the world, and asks the question, “Will the nations never cease provoking each other to greater military extravagance?” To our mind it answers its own question in these words: “Great Britain built a new and much more powerful ‘Dreadnaught,’ and now Germany plans to have sixteen ‘Dreadnaughts’ in six years, and forty-seven in twelve years.” The Independent believes that within a few years these ships will all be scrap-iron, because “the people will not submit many years longer to settle their differences by murder.” These nations are fulfilling God’s Word in their military preparations. Would that the people of this world believed the Word.