The Outlook of an Unregenerate World W h a t Is th e W o rld G ettin g R e a d y F o r? Is T h e re A n y H o p e b u t in Christ?
BY K.. L. B.
by radio, w ithout a single man on board. Delicate electrical in strum en ts governed the speed of th e 'sh ip , fed fuel to the boilers and navigated the vessel as if human hands had been a t the wheel. These gigantic death dealers can be sent across th e ocean by w ireless to spread destruction, and w ithout th e risk of a single life on board th e preying ship. Aeroplanes may now drop bombs con taining th e most deadly gases. One bomb containing th e newly discovered gas will be sufficient to kill every living tiling in a radius of many miles and even to make th e soil unproductive for many months afterw ard. The United States army has. a new gun capable of firing a bullet which at two hundred yards will p en etrate the heavy army plate of b attle tanks. It flies a bullet weighing 800 grains as compared to the 150 grains, the ammu nition used in th e last war, which the tanks sucessfully resisted. In England, flame throw ers have been invented capable of licking up every thing in th eir path and these will be brought to a high degree of perfection. A man named Ulivi has perfected an app aratu s by means of which ultra-red rays can be applied to blow up distan t battleships or fortresses. A short time ago he set up his app aratu s some dis tance from a m anufacturing p la n t and when he set hds instrum ents in opera tion the machinery in th e nearby plant was .practically ruined by the heavy electric charge. Massive copper bars were distorted, p a rts of machinery were unsoldered and even reduced to the fusion point. He also paralyzed a big
ARLESS world—-When?
Before the second coming of Christ?—No. .W e want a warless world because Christ hates war. Every consistent Christian will do everything possible to avert war. However, th e re ds nothing to be gained by saying, “ Peace, peace,” where th e re is no peace, or in trying to cover up the tru th . There will be more wars, worse wars than we have ever dreamed of. Never in the history of th e world were preparations made for th e b ru tal destruction of human lives on such gi gantic scales; never were such hellish and u tterly inhuman schemes for the in fliction of death and misery conceived. All these preparations are not being made w ithout some end in view. Those who have rejected the though t of any thing approaching a literal fulfillment of th e terrib le pictures given us in the book of Revelation, are beginning to see th e possibility of even worse things th an those pictured there. Some of the world’s greatest scientists are bending every energy to make possible these very horrors. At a g reat gathering of statesm en in Edinburgh recently, protests w e r e voiced against chemical warfare. Scien tific men were urged not to employ th eir talen ts in devising means to develop and perpetuate a mode of w arfare which, is abho rren t to th e higher instincts of humanity. But the ghastly work will go on, and these devilish devices will be brought, in due time, into full play. Already th e United States navy has successfully-operated a g reat battleship
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