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The Cry of Peace and Safety

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 6, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 23.

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The Cry of Peace and Safety

While a plan is in preparation through which the world hopes for universal peace, and while the Word of God plainly teaches the futility of any such hope, the world itself is furnishing the evidence that the predictions of the inspired prophets are true, and that the cry of peace and safety is a false cry. One page of one daily paper furnishes the following witness of the increasing troublousness of our times. From the head-lines on that one page we glean the following:—
Crime Floods Russia; New Outbreak of Terrorism Sweeping the Country; Provinces in Revolution; Human Life Cheap; Twenty Millions for New Prisons, and Only Twelve Millions for New Schools, Tells the Whole Story. Rebellion in China; Officers Assassinated by Insurgents in Hongkong; Mission Station Raided; Troops Are Being Hurried to the Scene; German Gunboat with Marines Sent to Protect Subjects; British Gunboat May Soon Be Dispatched. Slain Priest a Spy; Believed to Be an Agent of the Sultan. Lottery to Pay $300,000 Fine to Escape Imprisonment of Its Officials. Guatemalan Panic; Nation Is Near Anarchy; Nineteen under Sentence of Death for Complicity in Plot Against Cabrera; Terrible Slaughter Feared. Disorders at Santiago; Strike Leads to Clashes Between Rural Guards and Rioters. Four Shot in Race Riot.
And this is only a portion of the sensational news of one day. No cry of peace and safety, no resolutions of peace congresses, can change the hearts of men. It is only the power of Christ in the life that can bring peace, and only his protection can give safety. “Great peace have they which love thy law; and nothing shall offend them.” With the hearts of men unregenerated, no peace is possible to man; and with the world drifting further and further away from the only One who can bring about that regeneration, there is no possibility of universal peace in this earth till Christ sets up his throne to reign over a world purified by fire.