Toys with a War Tinge

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, October 31, 1916

Toys with a War Tinge

SPEAKING of a report of the British Patent Office issued early this year, the Wall Street Journal says: "Considerable space is given to descriptions of various games which have been invented since the beginning of the war, and almost all of them have a war tinge. There is the 'trench game,' a warship which sinks when hit by a torpedo shot from a torpedo boat which is sold with the ship; a cross-bow aëroplane; many different varieties of soldiers and sailors; with ships, submarines, war balloons, guns, and other implements of war in profusion."

The Journal then suggests, "With all these war games and toys being sold for the amusement of the young, it is suggested that the younger generation may better know the meaning of preparedness than did their elders."

Unregenerate humanity has always been involved in war. The spirit of this age is the spirit of war, regardless of everything that is said to the contrary. The Bible makes it plain that the furies of war will grow worse and more barbarous as we come nearer the end. The facts all about us everywhere are in harmony with the Bible prediction. The truly wise will know what they should do under the circumstances.