Bottling Up Strife by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 21, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 50.

Bottling Up Strife

By Editor

A DISPATCH says that some two hundred socialists within the borders of one of the large nations in Europe have been ordered shot. The dispatch may misstate the facts; but however that may be, there are continued rumors of attempts to suppress the socialists in the war zone. While the military power is so strongly in control, the feelings and sentiments of the socialist party will be largely held under; but there is a day of reckoning coming. The socialist is practically the same, no matter what nation he may reside in; and the pressure that restrains his feelings and sentiments at the present time, must cause all the more terrific explosion later.

We are not setting this forth as a theory either for or against socialism. We are simply stating what we believe to be a fact, and ask our readers to consider it carefully. Are you thinking about what must be the outcome of the intense unrest of this time? The military power is but a feeble agency to cope with the forces that sooner or later must be let loose. Hiding our eyes to the facts of this time in which we live will not avert the catastrophe that is surely coming. The only sensible thing for us is to understand what these things mean, and then prepare ourselves for the issue; for if we are properly prepared, we will not go down in the revolution that is hanging over this world, but we will instead arise to the joys of immortality. It is this great event of Christ's coming alone that will be successful in bringing to a terminus the turmoil and bitter strife of these days in which we live.