Battle-Ships and Big Guns as Peacemakers
THE story has been told all around the world, of how big guns in fortresses and on great battle-ships, together with the many other modern weapons of destruction, were making war such a terrible thing that the nations would not fight. Hence most of the periodicals, in harmony with the views of many statesmen who do this, have been calling the great battle-ships "our peacemakers." But how absurd all those theories appear, in view of the furious war that is now raging in Europe! Men are rushing at each other with these destructive weapons of war, and do not seem to be in the least afraid. The facts are that the many people who have been saying the world has reached an era of universal peace, were unable to harmonize their theories with the realities of war preparation, and so to help make those theories coincide with what actually exists, they were claiming that the battle-ships and fortifications, with their big guns and with all the rest of aerial, submarine, and terrestrial armament, were tending toward peace. God's word has said that the last days should be characterized by a spirit of war, and that finally the world will reach its climax and come to its end amid the great destructions of the war of Armageddon. God's word has this thing right, and we should study and know that Word, and not depend upon the theories of men.