Clinedinst Photo, Washington, D. C. Washington (District of Columbia) “Little Niagara,” or the Great Falls of the Potomac, within a few miles of where our General Conference is now in session
On page 10 of this issue is an illustration of the influential concourse of men that met in New York City on May 5 to arrange a program for the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. This was the treaty that ended the war of 1812 between this country and England. The enthusiastic supporters of this program are planning to celebrate “the centenary of peace among English-speaking nations.” These English-speaking nations, during that hundred years, have not gone to war with each other; but we had our civil war in this nation, which was one of the bloodiest in all history; England had her war with the Boers, which was another very bloody conflict; to say nothing of the lesser conflicts in which these nations have been engaged, unless we might mention, in passing, the slaughter of some 23,000 men in a single battle, by Lord Kitchener, with his machine guns, in one of his Egyptian campaigns. We are in favor of peace, and are seeking to do all within our power to bring about the reign of the Prince of Peace; but we wish to exert our influence to the utmost to show to the people of this world that we are in no time of peace, neither is there any prospect of universal peace before this world. The prospects are all to the contrary, and the word of God is in harmony with the prospect.
