MUCH has been said during recent decades concerning the “concert among the powers of Europe to keep the peace.” When any of the weaker nations are in danger of being dismembered or broken up, some one or more of the “great world powers” steps in and prevents it. This has been done so often that there has come to be a general belief that the powers are bound together to keep the peace and that big wars will be therefore averted. The plan has been carried out largely thru the jealous fear among the nations as a whole, lest any one nation should become strong enough to act as a dictator to the rest. Trade and the conquest of territory are usually at the bottom of all the difficulties between nations. And one of the principal bones of contention between the powers of Europe has been the Turk and his territory. They have had a determination among themselves that no one of the so-called Christian powers should be allowed to get possession of Constantinople with all its great advantages in a military and naval way. Recently, however, Emperor William has become very friendly to the Turk, and it is thought that he has come to consider that his navy is sufficiently strong to vie with that of England (the British navy has heretofore been acknowledged protector of the Turk), and that he may now break away from the concert of powers and reap some benefits of his own from Turkey. Nothing special may come of this, but it is interesting to note from day to day the materials for war that may be seen among the nations. We are rapidly coming to the time when the war of the great day of God will break forth, and he is blind who can not see that the materials are gathering in every quarter of the globe, preparatory to the awful strife of that near-by time. Trade was never sought for more eagerly nor with more covetous determination than at the present time. Greed for gain is one of the most marked conditions and evils of this age. This being true, the subject-matter for wars will be ever abundant, and while good men and women should always be doing all they can to promote peace, yet all who are studying the prophecies know full well that there will be no peace on this earth till the coming of Him who is the Prince of Peace, the Son of the living God. Between now and the time when Christ shall actually appear in the clouds of heaven, there will be more and more war talk and greater and greater war preparations, until finally the great war of the great day of God, as foretold by the prophets, will break out, and shortly following that the end will come.