A REPORT has been passed out to the effect that Ex-president Roosevelt has written a letter to a secretary of one of the women's peace societies denouncing those who are working for the abolition of war. It is affirmed that Mr. Roosevelt declares “pacifists” in general constitute a “menace to the future welfare of the United States.”
However that matter may be, we will leave it to Mr. Roosevelt and the ladies to “fight it out.” But this we do know,—that one of the greatest menaces to the individual in this time is the deception that will be created through the false cry of peace and the false impressions concerning peace.
An assemblage of women is just meeting at The Hague, and they confidently announce that they are going to end all wars. Many of these women are professing Christians, and claim to believe the Bible. But if they would study their Bibles more closely, they would see that peace can never come to this wicked world.
One of our greatest dangers is in being swept off our feet through popular teaching, carried along with intense enthusiasm. Men and women are inclined to follow the prevailing styles of thought, without doing any personal thinking themselves, and it is a very easy matter in this way to be deceived.
All true Christians believe in peace, and will work for it with all their powers. But at the same time, they will ever know that this world will see no permanent peace. Says the Master, “Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars.”
Photograph by Buck, from Underwood and Underwood
DISAPPEARING GUN ON THE PANAMA CANAL
