The Pope and the War by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 9, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 44.

The Pope and the War

By Editor

EVERY day or two, the dispatches are telling us of something that the pope is doing to influence the leading participants in the European war. One day, we are told of his activities in protesting against the Armenian atrocities. Then again he will be interceding with some one of the crowned heads of Europe to get him to stay the execution of some one under sentence. And one of the most striking of his recent achievements was to get the warring nations to grant that their prisoners engaged in labor shall not be required to work on Sunday, that Sunday shall be given to them as a day of absolute repose and rest.

Some will ask, Are not such activities all right, and are they not wholly beneficial? A superficial view doubtless would call forth an affirmative reply.

We ask our readers not merely to consider the activities of the pope in the present struggle, but furthermore to consider the successes that are coming to him in those activities. The nations are more and more yielding to his influence; and while recognizing that this is true, we should also keep in mind the prophecy of the Bible which tells us that the deadly wound received in 1798 by the papal power is to be healed. The same prophecy also tells us that all the world will wonder after the beast.

The careful student of Bible prophecy will recognize in these successful activities of the papal power the rapid fulfillment of those remarkable prophecies. The Catholic and the Protestant, as well as those who have no particular creed whatever, should carefully study these things and meditate upon them. The world is not only making history very rapidly in these times, but it is also making history that is most strikingly fulfilling prophecy.