War Preparations Cannot Bring Peace

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Feb 7, 1911

War Preparations Cannot Bring Peace

Aeroplanes nor formidable battle-ships nor mighty explosives will bring peace. Peace does not come through fear on the part of him who thinks he is prepared or is defending his home. It was strongly talked a few years ago that the mighty inventions and terrible explosives would check war, but they have not checked war expense or war preparations. Rather these have been greatly increased. The world is war mad. One nation has its mighty army with its best equipment. Another nation will raise and equip a superior army. One power will have guns and ships and flying-machines to meet the other power, and the great game will grow bigger and more exciting till Armageddon covers the earth with her slain. This is not only the logic of the situation; it is the prediction of divine foreknowledge. See Jeremiah 25; Joel 3:9-12; Rev. 16:14, 16.