Peace League of the World

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 8, 1915

Peace League of the World

This is the name of a new organization, designed to be world-wide in its scope, whose purpose is to make war upon war until war shall cease to be. Branches of the new organization are springing up in the larger cities already. The purpose and something of the methods of the Peace League were set forth by the president of the Washington branch of the league in a meeting of that branch held on July 1. He summarized as follows:—

“Affairs of the world should be controlled by a federal system similar to the federal government in our own country, made up of representatives of all the civilized countries of the world who would constitute an international board of arbitration, elected by the people and subject to recall by the people. These representatives should be elected and controlled by the people, because if war is to cease and peace is to reign, there must be rule by the many and not by the few. Rule by people of enlightened intelligence must underlie any system evolved to insure peace. In order that a majority of the civilized people of the world may possess sufficient enlightenment to allow them to take part in this scheme for world peace, pamphlets would be distributed by the governments containing information touching all the proposed changes in the foreign policy of the nation or any other changes that would be likely to lead the country into war. The last sixty years of history in this country proves conclusively that where the people rule, as they have in the United States, tyranny, revolt, and anarchy are as foreign as despotism. The people have a legitimate claim to an interest in world affairs, and they are bound to have it before very long.”

The president of the Washington branch predicted that the United States would be the country to take the first step in this direction. Such a development as this, with the people controlling the affairs of the world, and the United States leading out in it, would be a very logical and natural prelude to the fulfillment of certain phases of the prophecy of Revelation 13.