Peace, War, and Armageddon
The despatches have announced that Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford University, will soon retire from his position, and devote the remainder of his life to working in the interest of international peace. God proclaims through His prophetic Word that He has commissioned four angels to stand on the four quarters of the earth, to hold the winds of strife and war until His sealing message is completed. This sealing message is to prepare a people to stand before God at the second coming of His Son. God always uses individuals in His work in the earth, and in all probability many of these strong and influential men will be instruments in the hands of the angels of God in holding back the strife and war that is so rampant everywhere. But the war spirit will not be held in check indefinitely. Armageddon lies just beyond; and when the divine Father bids the angels that are holding these strifes to step aside, the pent up furies of war will break forth in ways that are beyond description. The Armageddon war will be the first one that has ever occurred on the earth in which God has not exercised a restraining hand. But when the time for that war is reached, all divine restraints of mercy will be withdrawn, and the universe will be permitted to witness the spectacle of what Satan will do when he has nothing to hinder him. It is to be earnestly hoped that every true messenger of peace in this time will be found standing with God in that great and awful day.