Shells of Flame by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 24, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 33.

Shells of Flame

By Editor

ONE of the latest developments in the devices for killing men is a shell that throws a liquid which bursts into flame when it strikes. Yet men in these war times will face just such things, and fight to the death in the flames produced by such missiles.

Before Europe's war broke out, we were told that we could never have another war, for numerous reasons, and among the strongest that were urged was the idea that weapons were becoming so destructive and would inspire such terrors that men would not face them. But every theory has been exploded, and the war that has now been raging for a year under these modern conditions is increasing its furies and its barbarities every day.

It is not for us to say which nation is the worst; but we may call attention to existing facts, and invite the world to examine these facts in the light of the prophecies which tell that the world would break out in tornadoes of war just before the second coming of Christ.