The Republican journal., 1915-03-18
THE PRESENT EUROPEAN WAR AND
LUKE 81.
TContinued from last week.

Continued from last week
To THE EDITOR OF The JOURNAL The
prevalent teaching has been that through
the preaching of the gospel men were be-
ing taught the love of God as set forth
by Christ, and that men everywhere had
already accepted Chrst's teachings to
such an extent that war of any size
was now impossible, and that in time
there would be no such thing as war of
any description. Then would be answered
the prayer whi~h Christ taught: ''Thy
Kingdom come, Thy will be done on
earth as it is IN heaven"
Now the Bible teaches just opposite to
this. 1t teaches that there will be wars
and rumors of wars until Christ comes to
establish His Kingdom under the whole
heavens, and that just before He comes
| there will be great universal war such
as the world has never seen.
There are many of all denominations
who are watching every move of the
present conflict to see if it is really the
beginning of that mighty struggle pre-
dicted by the prophets of old which will
terminate in the great battle of Ar
mageddon and the downfall of all earth
ly Kingdoms. While no one pretends to
know of a certainty at this stage of the
conflict what the outcome will be, yet
there are many things which go to show
US that it may really be the beginning of
that great war predicted.
First, the condition of our times before
the war tallies exactly with the condi-
tons foretold by the prophets; and the
prediction of Joel $50 was being carried
out by the nations all preparing for war
on the most gigantic scale the world ever
knew Prepare war, wake up the mighty
men. let all the men of war draw near;
let them come up: "Beat your plowshares
into swords and your pruninghooks
into spears: let the weak say, am
strong, and so it has been.
Many people have been saying, as in
the second chapter of Isaiah, that nation
shall not lift sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more
and that all differences will be settled by
arbitration instead of by the sword; this
has been the peace cry all over the
world. We read in l Thes. 5:3, "For
when they shall say Peace and safety;then
sudden destruction cometh upon them
and they shall not escape" Less than
year ago all things were apparently 60
ing on as usual, great peace conferences
were being appointed, when suddenly the
crash came.
Second, the condition of the Turkish
Empire goes to show that this may be
the great war which is predicted. The
prophet Daniel in the 18th chapter of his
book presaged the overthrow of Turkey
and at that time the standing up of Mi
chael and the great time of trouble of
the nations, or Armageddon. This scrip
ture not only tells of the Turks down.
fall but also gives some detail as to the
manner it will come about. 1t says.
tidings out of the East and out of the
North shall trouble him; and the
Sultan is hearing those trouble
some tidings today. To the east the
Russians are driving back mis- army.
to the north be- is hearing of Russia's in
tentlon of occupying Constantinople as
soon as it is captured by the Allies, and
this will cause him to 90 forth with great
fury to destroy and utterly make away
with many. It's feared that before the
Turks leave their beloved city that they
will destroy it and also glut their revenge
by massacrine all foreigners and Chris
tians wherever they find them.
Daniel also prophesied that the Turk
will make his .inal stand and come to his
end between the seas in the glorious holy
mountain, which must be in Jerusalem.
The Turk would have been driven out