Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-11-05
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IA SermOnette on international Peace:
Editor Democrat:
The Biblical prophetic crisis and
collapse of nominal Christendom
foretold by Pastor Russell, and the
collapse of c~ommercialism foretold. by
Count Tolstoi is now q fact, yea al
most a historical fact at that. The
desire for fame, wealth, honor and
power has overwhelmed beneVolence,
gratitude, honesty and love, and in
stead Of mankind being brothers and
brother lovers, they are still enquir-
ing-"am I my brothers keeper"
Mankind having ignored our Lords
commandment "To love one another
to Live at peace with all men" has
plunged the nations into the most in
conceivable, international, inhuman
rrn &Aho& AA- -~ -
a result love has turned to hate, in
telligence and genius have d~egenerat-
ed in a fortnight, the earth is full Of
violence and men are paying the price
with their lives for disobedience! The
arm OF flesh is battling for supre-
Eruacy and blood is the reward.
History reveals the fact chat nearly
z 100000, 900 have died in battle since
our first parents disobeyed in Eden.
Wars arerrespOnsible for the death of
Ave times the population Of the globe
now living. Wars have caused more
SORROW than all. other, epidemics On
record. -
Just before the great European val
broke out delegates from all over the
world were gathered in Europe to at
tend a peace. conference whereby they
could establish International peace
and Tushssa speedygconEersion of the
world preparatory to ChristR second
coming-but they were Scattered
abroad in the night in a madSfight to
escape with their lives, just as the
bloodiest war of all the ages was en-
acted. Imagine the great consterna-
ton Of these good and noble, yet mis-
taken people as they beheld their
plans scattered to the windsi Efgh-
teen centuries ago our Lord instructed
Us to pray 'Thy Kingdom come" but
instead of complying with His COM
mand we ignored Him and went to
work building terrible engines or war
for the purpose of establishing king
doms by force and murder, and as a
result the great whirlwind of anarchy
will soon envelop mans selfish plans
and the kingdoms of this world will
go down before the kingdoms OF u
Lord can be established
cwe1leth righteousness"
The Lord proclaims thru the pro-
phet Joel
"Beat your plowshares into swords
your pruning hooks into spears
let the weak say I am strong" (Joel
3:10). -
The above prophecy is now being
Fulfilled beyond the sea. LET the
weak say 1 am strong" and n 1t a
hy word of all nations to boast and
ssv "Look at. our STRONG navy,
we've got the strongest fleet ahoat.
T,verv time an immense Dreadnaugnt
Is launched it is heralded around the
world. LET the weak say l am
strong" While great battlesh1ps OF
fine seas and air were being Dullt no
rod nrayed to the contrary,no Dooy
nrayed for peace, but we all exclalm.
cd 81, et the weak say l am strong.
We all looked on with pride! we
never thought of the h~eartaches, pain
oud sorrow hidden in the eauty OIL
a rtistic steel and floating ships Oh oe-
s+rnction, Our pride .eclipsed our
thought!
There goes the allies with their 'en-
zines of destruction. Here comes Tue
Germans with their engines OF De
s+rnction. They meet in the "Va4Iey
~ decision" Joel 3:14.) Clasn!
Connons roar. shells burst and we see
tons Of thousands of human beings
s1oin Then we listen to he neart
ending groans of widows n OF.
,bans waiting for their loved ones!
Whot does it all mean? The answer
;s WWhile the Princes of earth were
battleships with intent to
reign by force and murder, God look
81 down from heaven and saw the
1oorts of men are not right, He saw
4bat we are not prepared for peace:
4a a' saw that selfshness is king o
the the earth, and that the hand of the
o on1 is mighty in the land. He
opp hat the stoney heart Of man must
s@ ~st he crushed by humiliation before
mankind would fall at the feet OF the
King of kings and cry from thelr
h hla = aThy Kingdom come" He saw
neal Sn+ornational war must first be
destroyed lest by international war Fl before fore
International peace would De WEI
coined, He saw that because OIL IL