The Peace Congress at The Hague

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 27, 1906

The Peace Congress at The Hague

THE magazines of both Europe and America are giving much space to the matter of the coming peace congress at The Hague. Mr. Holls, one of the members of that congress, states that it is “called for the purpose of solving a present problem, and of furnishing guarantees, more or less permanent, for peace between the powers represented.” The eyes of the world are turned toward The Hague as the place where “differences between nations should be adjudicated and settled in the same manner as disputes between individuals are adjudicated; namely, by the arbitrament of courts in accordance with recognized principles of law.” One of the questions to be considered at that conference will be:—

The advisability of establishing an international congress to convene periodically for the discussion of international questions.

That, carried out, would make the

court a permanent one; and it is proposed that in the interim between its sessions a permanent committee be appointed “in order to watch over international interests, to use its influence in behalf of peace and the enforcement of law, and report upon desirable changes or improvements in international law at the meeting of the following congress. Such a committee might in time gradually develop into a sort of international executive.”

It is recognized by the advocates of the universal peace propaganda that it would be impossible for such a congress to carry out its decrees without a strong international executive. It is not difficult to see that in the working out of this plan this “strong international executive” could either be, or be dominated by, the power at the Vatican. Neither is it difficult to see, through this plan, the fulfilment of Rev. 17:12, 17, when the kings of the world shall be of one mind to give their authority to that power. Thus in seeking universal peace by methods of man they would bring the culmination of the hope of Rome, and with it the climax of the great controversy between truth and error in the earth.