The World's Cry for Peace.
By John S. Wightman
THE Second Peace Conference at The Hague, beginning June 15, will be THE WORLD'S FIRST AUTHORITATIVE UNIVERSAL CRY FOR PEACE. Reader, make no mistake! It is a stupendous and significant sign in the earth OF THE COMING OF CHRIST AND THE END OF THE WORLD! Not upon the far-away horizon, dim and distant, but here, in the midst of us, emblazoned upon the spires and minarets of the MOUNTAIN-TOPS of the nations, saying, "PEACE, PEACE, WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE." Forty-six nations will engage in the diplomatic struggle for arbitration, disarmament, and justice! For the abolition of war! But how futile are these hopes. Mighty preparations for war go on. Gigantic expenditures for battle-ships proceed. Battalions continue to drill. Torpedo boats are multiplied. Engines of destruction take a longer stride in power and death-dealing efficiency. The heathen and the Gentile "awake" for the last great battle of Armageddon. Isaiah's divine pencil, 2,700 years ago, limned the great picture now before us, and a lonely prisoner upon the rock-ribbed Isle of Patmos nineteen centuries ago, in vision, saw the nations of to-day engaged in a world-battle for supremacy! And, ah, sad as it may seem, the United States entangled in the diplomatic snare, and made to sit as a queen at the head of the banquet board of death and fierce destruction. Spirits of demons are hurrying on the nations and the preparations for universal slaughter, while lying spirits, false prophets, deceivers, and workers of iniquity, are lulling the people to a false sense of carnal security! "A time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation." One bright star, one alone—shining brightly in the blackness of the night—serves as a beacon-light to the Christian's hope just beyond, THE GREAT DAY OF GOD, THE HARVEST WHICH IS "THE END OF THE WORLD," THE COMING OF JESUS IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN. "Awake, thou that sleepest"—"Awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand."—JESUS OF NAZARETH IS COMING AGAIN!