A False Peace Cry

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Jul 16, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 27.

A False Peace Cry

THERE are many such expressions as the following, from the Rev. Robert Graves, Portland:

“War has become such a terrible thing on account of the modern inventions of warfare that it is becoming obsolete. The old soldiers of the Civil War are about gone, and it is unlikely that great nations again will go to war.”

These are strange words from a believer in the Book which predicts in numerous cases a fearful war which lies before. It has been demonstrated many times that the invention of death-dealing slaughter weapons does not deter men from going to war. Take, for instance, the Japanese-Russian war. Men threw themselves just as heartily into the battle as they ever did in the ancient past. All the training that men are getting to-day, and from their boyhood in schools, in societies, is certainly not taking the world away from war, but into it; and this is in harmony with the predictions of God’s Word. “When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them.”