THERE are persistent rumors that as soon as the weather settles this spring, Germany will invade England with a powerful fleet of Zeppelin airships. It is said that among the English people, this is not regarded lightly—that they consider it to be a very strong probability. Rigorous work is being done to meet the invaders should they come. Among the things in preparation is an airship devised by Mr. Thomas Rutherford Macmechen, which is to be known as the “Zeppelin destroyer.” It is smaller and much lighter than the Zeppelin, and can attain a very much greater speed, being able to sail at the rate of about seventy miles an hour. It will carry four men and can stay in the air for ten hours at a time, and can operate some seventy miles from its base of supplies. It will carry a torpedo gun, and by its greater speed, is designed to keep above the big Zeppelins and destroy them. What terrors have grown up in modern warfare? Think of what it means to be invaded from the air. Think further what it means to have battle a mile above the ground in the air itself. Think of the horrors of such things. Is it any wonder that the prophets, in describing the scenes of war that should lead up to Armageddon, characterized them as being under the influence of demons? And how vivid and intense is the language of Jeremiah as he views these scenes through which the world is now passing! He says: “My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste.” Jer. 4:19, 20. Many people are concerned about the question as to who is right and who is wrong in this war, and who is responsible for it. But these things should be lost sight of, because of the most significant and important question of what the prophets have said regarding these conditions of war and what they mean to the world. We are standing before the great climax. Armageddon is not very far ahead, and we should be ready for the consummating scenes of the second coming of Christ that lie on just before.