The World Approaches Armageddon
The spectacle of the pope melting up 150,000 firearms in a specially prepared furnace in the Vatican may give consolation to some with the hope that peace for the world is coming. But while he burns up these extra stands of arms, he still retains his Palatine Guards. Why not dispose of them also? This would certainly be the consistent thing for any one to do who professes to be the vicar of Christ. However, the delusive dream that the world is approaching a time of peace should not be allowed to steal over any one for a moment. The pope has burned up a lot of firearms, no doubt too much out of date to be valuable except in a museum of antiquities; but every nation on earth is strengthening and extending its military equipments until the burden has become so great as to be well-nigh unendurable. It is the battle of the great day of the Lord on the fields of Armageddon that the world is driving up to, and not to a time of peace.