NEW plans are continually formulated to cause the warring nations of Europe to lay down their arms, and furthermore, that we may have permanent and perpetual peace. One of the latest plans is that brought forth by Mr. Henry Ford, the great automobile manufacturer. He says that he is going to spend all of his millions, if necessary, in the effort to cause the warring nations to cease their strife, and to free the world from belligerent bloodshed. He even hopes that this will be accomplished before Christmas time of this year.
ANDREW CARNEGIE AND WIFE
The odds are very strongly against him; but reason, humanity, and common sense are on his side. He, with his associates, may be able to make impressions that will lessen the strife, at least for a time; but we must never lose sight of the fact that we are plainly in that period of the world's history when the prophets have foretold that the nations will be angry, that they will be mad with strife, and regardless of reason or humanity, they will continue their frenzied career until finally they drive pell-mell into the great climax of the war of Armageddon itself.
According to the word of God, the mass of mankind will refuse to heed the plain teaching of the Bible prophecies, and will fulfill the predictions of the prophets by filling the world with a spirit of war. But every individual who can be induced to give careful heed to what God has foretold, must be reached and persuaded to accept the truth of inspiration. Every effort must be made to keep men from falling under the deceptive delusions that are leading people to believe that this mad, wicked world can be brought into a permanent, perpetual peace. Awful are the delusions of this time, and terrible must be the final awakening of those who refuse to heed the warning God has sent out concerning these days in which we live.
We should put forth the utmost endeavor to keep men at peace. We should encourage every reasonable peace movement. But we must not allow our work in behalf of peace to blind our eyes to the condition of the time, nor to shut out from our vision the prophecies that so clearly shine upon these days, and disclose the fact that war and not peace will characterize this time.
It is possible for men and women to become so determined in an effort to force peace upon the world, that they will actually hypnotize themselves into believing ultimately that they have secured peace, while the powder magazines of war are lying all around them. Let us not fail to keep before us that prediction of the apostle Paul, that in the last days, while men are saying, “Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, . . . and they shall not escape.”
