The Next Decade by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 26, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 16.

The Next Decade.

By Editor

Mr. John Temple Graves, the editorial correspondent of the Examiner in Washington, declares that there lies in the next decade either universal peace or universal war. He says: "There are thoughtful men at the capital, as well as at the metropolis, who believe that the issues of the next decade hold for the world either universal peace or universal war. Forces of tremendous moment are moving powerfully toward each possibility, side by side. The white banner of peace and the red flag of carnage are struggling to the front of human interest as the arbiters of issues and of life to the nations."

What it will be is clearly foretold in the Word of God. That declares that the cry of peace will issue in disappointment, and that the preparation for war will issue in world-wide strife; and Mr. Temple's article would seem to be in harmony with this, for he says: "The pity of it is, and the danger is, that it is always possible to arouse the world by rumors or threats of war. There is in the universe no theme so noble and inspiring as universal peace, and yet its evangel scarcely quickens a pulse of the public or awakens a response from those who hold the theme in tender reverence."