Europe’s Great Powers and Their Weakness
The expressions, “the powers,” “the great powers,” etc., as applied to the nations of Europe, sound somewhat ironical in the light of the present condition of affairs in that part of the world. The “sick man,” as Turkey has been called for the last half century, has been for years really the master of the situation. Notwithstanding the great war preparations of the “great powers,” little Greece, a mere relic of former greatness, is the only European “power” that has dared to fire a gun at the proverbial invalid. When the “great powers”—the “great Christian powers”—finally decided to throw a few shells, they were all aimed at a handful of nominal Christians huddled under the banner of little Greece. The much-boasted power of these European nations is proving to be their weakness, and their great war preparations will in the end prove their destruction. The more they prepare for war, the more fearful they are of war, and their resources are so absorbed in military and naval munitions that they are confessedly short of means for carrying on war. “There is no power but of God,” and the limit to which he allows mankind to use power is man’s power limit. “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” Let those who proclaim the message of salvation go forth in the name and under the banner of Him who can say, “All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth.”