When War Threatens
between mother and daughter nations of the earth, can we hope for peace among all nations? Sinister
glances across the North Atlantic. Will America join the ghostly procession to oblivion?
HEN Uncle Sam played the part of the good
Samaritan by entering the World War in
April, 1917, he did not anticipate that one
of the nations he went across the ocean
to help would in turn become a potential
enemy; but today such is the case. Ameri-
cans may feel fortunate indeed that the United
States has been comparatively free from war during
the period of its history as compared with war-torn
and bleeding Europe during the same period. But
omens of a coming storm are on the horizon, and it
is not improbable that the United States may yet
be involved in serious calamity.
Inspiration, describing the conditions on the earth
just before the return of Jesus Christ, declares that
at that time ‘the nations were angry.” (Revelation
11: 18.) From a study of the prophecies it is certain
that we are living in the period just prior to the
return of Christ. Never in the history of mankind
has there been such lack of faith as today — lack of
faith in other individuals and lack of faith of one
nation in another nation. Fear has kept alive in
the hearts of individuals and of nations that old
doctrine of preservation by force. And one writer
has stated: ‘Unless that fear can be replaced by
faith, then civilization must perish, and all govern-
ments will tumble to ruin.”
“The plain fact is,” states a leading journalist,
“that the world is threatened with a danger not
dreamed of for fifteen centuries — not since the
Roman Empire fell — the danger
of the collapse of our civilization
itself. It is time to be alarmed.”
THE HARVEST
UST the other day Karl H. von
Wiegand, chief foreign corre-
spondent of the Hearst news-
papers, wrote: “ When Britain and
France and all their Allies could
not defeat Germany in the war,
they called upon America's re-
sources in men, money, and ma-
terial to accomplish that end.
“And now we see the efforts to
mobilize Europe, in sentiment at
least, against America. . . .
“’The friendship that so many
Americans sincerely believed our
intervention in the war would
bring us has turned out to be open
or potential enmity.
“In all its history America
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never had so many envious potential enemies as it
has today. I have been in Europe eighteen years and
in all that time I have never come across so much
envy, jealousy, open or scarcely concealed bitterness
against us as now.” — San Francisco Examiner,
Feb. 3, 1929.
Jealousy, envy, bitterness, covetousness lead to
hate; hate leads to anger; and anger to war. When
the prophet described the nations before the coming
of Christ as being “angry,” he must have incorpor-
ated in that term all the pent-up feelings of hatred
as having given way to universal open violence.
Will England and the United States eventually
clash? We dare not say that they will, but, on the
other hand, we can give no positive assurance that
they will not. In the years 1914-18, when the world
was on fire, our house was not fireproof. And it is
certainly not less fireproof today. We do know that
in the last great war, the war of Armageddon, all
nations will have a part.
But why should England be a potential enemy of
the United States? What could cause her to be
“angry” with the United States?
Perhaps, the first problem between the United
States and Great Britain is our assertion of our
ancient doctrine of the freedom of the seas. “America
holds that the seas,” writes Eugene J. Young,
journalist, in the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 3,
1929, ‘are the open roadways of the world and that,
outside strictly limited territorial water, all peoples
An army plane lays down a smoke screen that completely hides a warship
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