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A Great World Chorus

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 20, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 25.

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A Great World Chorus

It is a very easy matter for an individual to become confused on the questions of peace and war at this time when there are so many strong things said on the various sides of the questions involved. And perhaps there is no more interesting thing connected with the subject than the number of military and naval men who are ardent members of the various peace societies.
Many of those who are training to give their entire life to war occupations seem to be very sincere in their convictions that they are doing it all in the interests of peace. Among the prizes to be awarded at the recent Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration was one of a hundred dollars to be given to "an undergraduate male college student" who should write the best essay "upon international arbitration."
This prize was won by "a naval academy man." Because God foreknew that the minds of men would be so confused, in this generation, on the subject of peace and war, He inspired His prophets to predict that this age would show the greatest war preparations the world has ever seen, and that it would also show the greatest peace preparations that have ever been known. These peace preparations are to continue until the people, in one great world chorus, will be saying, to use the language of the apostle Paul, "Peace and safety." And, according to the same apostle, it is while they are thus saying "Peace and safety," that they are standing upon the brink of "sudden destruction," which comes upon them as unlooked-for as "a thief in the night."
Why cannot the people of this generation see the absurdity of their contradictory theories?
Why can they not see the force of the prophecies they are fulfilling in such a striking manner?