The King’s Business
Voi. 5
OCTOBER, 1914
No. 10
War and the Shattering of Man’s Empty Optimism and the Confirmation of the True Biblical Optimism F OR SOME years preachers and reformers have been fondly dreaming and even openly declaring that war among the more advanced and highly civilized nations was at an end, and that all international difficulties, would in the future be settled by arbitration. But the events of the past few weeks have rudely awakened them from this pleasant but entirely baseless and un- scriptural dream. Those who have known their Bibles have clearly understood from the beginning that war was not at an end. A year or so ago the editor of one of the most widely circulated religious journalsMn the world wrote to many persons asking them if they thought that through the Peace Conferences at The Hague and similar movements there would be no’more war. The writer of this editorial replied that he was in favor of anything that made for peace, even temporarily, that he detested war, but that at the same time he knew his Bible too well not to know that there was ahead of us. the most appalling war the world had ever witnessed. He went on to say that universal and permanent peace could not be secured by any schemes and devices and conferences of men, that universal and permanent peace would only come when the Prince of Peace came. The only permanent ,solution of our international problems as well as of our commercial and social problems is the Second Coming of Christ. Man in every dispensation has proved a failure and he will so prove in this. When man has discovered what a complete and utter failure he is, then God’s Man will come, the Son of Man, the God-incarnate man, and He will prove a complete success and all that we have dreamed of, but utterly failed to accomplish, will be more than realized. “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.” “Look up, and Lift up Your Heads; Because Your Redemption Draweth N igh” T HESE are among the darkest days this old world ever saw, but to the discerning mind there were never d^iys more full of promise and hope. It is appalling to think that the two most highly educated and cultured and civilized nations of earth, two professedly Christian nations at that, are putting forth every effort that cunning and strategy and science can devise to destroy as many as possible of the flower of the manhood of the sister nation. Trying to see how many homes they can make desolate, how many women they can make broken-hearted widows, and how many children orphans, doomed to want and illiteracy and wretchedness of every kind, how many once bright and promising girls they can send into the prostitution that always follows in the wake of war. It is enough to fill thoughtful hearts with agony and horror. B ut when men are “fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things
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