Women in the War by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 17, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 45.

Women in the War

By Editor

ONE of the striking things in this war is the part that women are taking in it. Of course women have formerly assisted in hospital work, in nursing the wounded and the sick. But the spirit of war has so taken possession of the population of some of the Old World nations, that women are attiring themselves as men, and going to the front as regular soldiers. This is said to be the case particularly in Russia, and in some of the Balkan States the women are regularly trained as soldiers.

But there is no reason why we should not expect things of this kind when practically all the titled women of Europe are members of some of the leading military organizations, and usually hold high honorary offices in the army and the navy. They are seen in the parades, and thus lend their influence to the spirit of war; and it is nothing more than a logical result that women should be found at the front fighting like men.

Why is it that the people of this world can not see that the war fever is spreading like a malignant contagion all through this world, and that it has taken complete possession of the great masses? It indicates the dissolution of society, and that terrible breaking up of the world which the prophets have shown would be the condition just before the second coming of Christ.