THESE are days of war preparations on a scale so colossal that efforts of previous generations are scarcely worthy of mention. One company of men armed with modern weapons, advantageously placed, could withstand the combined armies of the world previous to the advent of the nineteenth century; and one of the mighty Dreadnoughts of to-day, given sufficient ammunition, could sink a myriad of "Invincible Armadas."
At the same time there have been cries and appeals for peace from millions of people burdened with war debt; from eminent men in nearly all civilized nations, who see the futility, foolishness, and madness of war and war preparations. But the peace influences, crystallized into national and international congresses, have not kept pace with the war preparations. To help out the peace position, it is strangely argued by its advocates that the surest guarantee of peace is war preparation. In the face of these things it would be well for Christian peoples to study some of the predictions of the Christian Book, the Bible. That Book was given by the omniscient, omnipotent One for man in all ages and times, till this stage of earth's history, this present evil age, shall close. Its predictions and admonitions are given by One who predicts the future as an evidence of His right to be called the one only God. "Remember the former things of old: for I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE ELSE; I AM God, and there is NONE LIKE Me, DECLARING the end from the beginning, and FROM ANCIENT TIMES THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT YET DONE, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure." Isa. 46: 9, 10.
