Lessons From the World War
THERE is much experimenting in this war, both with the various kinds of air-ships and also with the submarines. The weak points in these two classes of destructive weapons will be carefully and scientifically figured out. Their effective power will be rendered more and more terrible and dependable in their destructive work. If ever there was a time when the second coming of Christ should look dear to the soul, and when we should be earnestly praying to be delivered from this barbarous, this wicked, this cruel world, that time is now; and if ever there was a time when the possessors of the blessed hope of the glorious gospel of the soon coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ should press forward in carrying the message of hope and cheer to the ends of the earth, that time is now. THE shocking cruelties of the Old World war, its wide-spread contagion, and the determination with which it is progressing, ought to lead the people of this world to realize their great mistake in thinking that we are living in times of peace, and that the spirit of the world to-day is the spirit of peace rather than the spirit of war. DOES it mean anything? Three lines of transatlantic steamers, the White Star, the Ashley and Duniston, and the Merchants-Montreal, have closed their bars and abolished the sale of liquor from their boats. Safety, efficiency, economy, morality, demand it. TO work intensely hard so as to accomplish more before we are called away is often like sewing fast to finish the work before the thread shall run out. A healthy even pace wastes less and accomplishes more. IT is reported that the British have invented a new gun for destroying air-ships. It has been used a few times, so the reports say, and “has proved a fresh terror to the aviators.”