Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-12-23

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England Russia and France may
curtail Germany's military strength,
but they never will be able to wipe
Germany from the map.
Some one may asks do you think
this very war is mentioned in the
Bible?" ] surely do. Is it not true
that considerable portion of tho
Bible is given to the story of the
wars Of the nations? In the early
chapters Of Genesis you will find the
story OF the wars Of Chedarlaomar.
Does not the Bible tell the story Of
the wars of Assyria, of Babylon, of
the Modes. Of the Persians, of the
Greeks. Of the Romans, Of the Sy-
rians? Yea, verify, and many of them
are mentioned by name. 1t would be
passing strange that war, the might.
lest of them all, the mightest that
ever has shaken this old world, should
be passed without specific mention
in the book of God.
The prophet of God spoke of this
when he said as recorded in Hosea
81: 'The days of visitation are
come. The days Of recompence are
come. Israel shall know it. The
prophet is fool. The spiritual man
is mad for the multitude of thine in.
EQUITY and thy great hatred" True
indeed, it is that the prophet who
has not the Word of God as his guide,
knows absolutely nothing about the
outcome of the titanic struggle. But
Gods people. says Hoseo, shall know
it.
Beginning with the closing days of
July, 1914, a change came in Gods
dealing with the nations of the earth
Something happened at that time in
the councils of heaven. / mean to
say this, that we then entered upon
an era of judgment for this world,
the like of which We have never seen
since the days of the flood
Never, since the days of Noah, has
such fearful judgment come to this
earth as has come in the terrific, IL
tanic struggle that is soaking the
fields of Europe in welter of blood
From some angles of vision, the pres
ent pentecost of calamity which is
sweeping over Europe, and carrying
ten thousands of men to untimely
graves, which is causing women to
f,;h i, 4 |,
to be desolated. famine and hunger
to stalk through the land babes to
die for lack of milk say that, this
calamity is in some ways a far more
dreadful, crueler one than even the
food, for when i'll the days of Noah,
the food came, there were mighty
rains from heaven, the waters rose
on every side, and in a few short
moments of time as it were, all the
pain and sorrow were over. Only in
that all the world is not included in
this cataclysm less awful than the
food. 9J
This is not war Of victories, but
of determination. Men are asking,
'Will the allies crush the central pow
ers?" "Will the central powers wipe
out the allied nations?" No, neither
will happen. Years ago Bible proph-
ct spoke concerning these same ma
tons of Europe, and said that the
iron monarchy of Rome would be
divided into ten parts, that three Of
these would be plucked I'D by the
roots, and that the other seven would
remain to the coming of Christ. Eng
land, Germany and France are among
the seven.
In olden days battles took their
names from the places where they
were fought but it is pretty hard
to name a battle nowadays. When
you think that the battle line on the
western front extends from the Vos
ges mountains of Switzerland over
400 miles to the waters of the North
sea, it is hard to name battle when
all along that line they are fighting
for all they are worth In the east
ern theatre the battle line begins
on the shores of the Gulf of Riga