m m THE KING'S BUSINESS ! ! = • • — ■ | Vol 7 OCTOBER, 1916. No. 10 | [ ! ■ - .. - .................d E D I T O R I A L The opinion seems to be very widely held that we are When Will fast approaching the end of the present frightful and the War End ? disastrous war. That may be so. The end of the war may come with startling suddenness. We wish that it might come very soon. But those who are most familiar with the resources— military, naval, financial and economic—at the disposal of both parties to this collosal struggle, are not optimistic as to a near, ending of this awful and murderous strife. We were speaking a few days ago with one who has been very recently in England, Belgium'and France, who has himself been in the front line of trenches; and has had rare opportunities of conversation with those high in authority, and he had not the slightest expectation of the war’s close in less than a year. We have seen unspeakably-terrible things—we shall see worse. The only hope is in God. He will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Him (Is. 26:3). He and He only is a refuge and strength and a very present help in such a time of trouble as'this (Ps. 46:1). We will not fear, “ though the earth be removed, and though the mountains 'be carried into the midst of the sea” (Ps. 46 :2). day social and political conditions, and who a little over two years ago were telling us that man had so advanced in education and civilization that a bar barous war was no longer possible, are now recovering from the-dazed condi tion into which the present war knocked them and are revamping their theories. They are saying that the present war will ultimately result in good by so demon strating the utter folly of war that this war will be the last. But, alas! it will not. The sure Word, of God tells us that “ even unto the end (o f the present dispensation) shall be war; desolations are determined” (Dan. 9:26 R. V .). Wars breed wars. The first Balkan war of Servia, Bulgaria, Greece and Rou- mania against the unspeakable Turk led to war between these allied nations and also led to the present wide-spread and almost universal war. If England and Russia succeed in defeating Germany, it is inevitable that the gravest dif ficulties shall arise between England and Russia. While there may be a period of wide-spread peace there can be no permanent peace among nations until He qomes, whose right it is to reign. But He will come. “ Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” “ Come quickly.” Those shallow optimists who cherish radiant hopes of an immediate millennium without the personal return of our Lord Jesus, by shutting their eyes to the clear teachings of Scripture and the plain facts of present- After the War— What?
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