War Prospects by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 22, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 33.

War Prospects.

By Editor

The little European flurry has aroused a great deal of interest, or at least the daily papers are endeavoring to arouse a great deal of interest over it. Germany has been feeling that France is getting too strong a hold in Morocco; therefore she sent her ships and seized Agadir. This has stirred France, who is putting her men on a war footing, and it has also stirred England. Some have in consequence been predicting war, and we have been asked what we thought regarding it. The Signs of the Times is not looking for war at this time. "The Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men." God has a work to do in the earth. That work is set forth in many places in the Scripture, Rev. 7:1-3 among others. God is gathering out of this last generation all those who have any desire to serve Him, and will yield themselves to His own perfect plan; and His mighty invisible intelligences are holding the winds of strife until His work is finished. He will permit, in His own providence, no wide-spread, desolating war until His work is done. There may be local disturbances, local conflicts, such as passed between Russia and Japan; but these will only serve to hasten His work. These will invariably mean open doors to His missionaries and His truth. For this God is working; for this He permits these conflicts to take place. But the great, world-wide conflict, the great war of Armageddon, will not occur until God's work is done. But the great war preparations among the world-blinded nations will go on just the same, even as His prophet of old told us that it would. Joel 3:14-16.

The World-Wide Sunday Law.

For years this journal has predicted that there would be not only a national Sunday law, but a world-wide Sunday law, in which all the nations of the earth would join, and out of which would grow persecution. This position was taken upon the prophecies of God's Word, before there was any indication whatever that the powers of the world would yield to it. It was pointed out that the great European powers were hostile, that the United States loved liberty, and that the great heathen nations, like China and Japan, would be wholly opposed to such a measure. But America is yielding step by step, the European powers are more or less in harmony with it, and a despatch dated May 11 from Peking, China, declares that an imperial edict declaring that beginning May 14 the Chinese shall observe Sunday as a day of rest, has been promulgated. Faith in the Word is becoming fact in history.

The "New York American" says that "some whisky is advertised without a headache, but no Munchhausen goes so far as to advertise any without a heartache." In fact, every brand is full of it.