All Are Looking | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1898

All Are Looking.

All are looking for what the Lord declares will come,—a general war. The Catholic Mirror of January 1 thus expresses it: “The ‘general European war’ which has been talked of for so many years—may it not be the coming event before the next twelve months have passed away? Not surprising is it that even the mighty statesmen and diplomats, whose firm nerves have borne them coolly through many a crisis, experience a shuddering thrill when they think of this horror? What will the next war between civilized nations be like? How will the cultured people of the earth, at the close of the nineteenth century, equipped with all the latest scientific development, proceed about the business of destroying one another? What mighty engines and dire explosives will they use to maim and slay—to lay waste farms and fields and obliterate cities? . . . There is apparently not much encouragement for the lovers of peace who dream of a universal arbitrament by the orderly ways of speech and pen rather than those of the sword. . . .

The kings and emperors of 1898 appear very much like those of 1798, and even those of 1698—indeed like the potentates of all times past, who only said, ‘Let us have peace,’ when they were most intent upon seizure and spoliation.” There is but one hope of freedom from war in this world, and that is the coming reign of our Lord Jesus Christ.