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Show EDITORIALS The Why and the Wherefore Of This Cruel and Terrible War This war is the battle of the great day of the Almighty as told so plainly in scripture. It is being waged not only for overcoming and vanpuishing the enemies of righteousness but also for the purpose of compelling the Israel nations to come out of the mire of Mammon and restore His statutes and ad-minisrtation ad-minisrtation as the law of the land, and to drive them to rep-pentence. rep-pentence. The war is being carried on for a purporse to which all participants are blind. They do not know it but they are being used by Destiny as instruments for the thorough cleansing clean-sing of the earth preparatory to the Great Day of the coming of the Prince of Peace and the ushering in of His and His brother Man's Kingdom. There are two powers at work in the earth and each of them is aspiring to rule the people of the world. Somewhat blindly they are driving toward the Holy Land where one of the powers plans to set up the rule of force and bring about the slave and master state as it existed in ancient empires, and to usurp the throne or power of the Prince of Peace and hold it by force of arms. The other power plans to make men and nations free, to bring universal peace, cood will and brotherhood. broth-erhood. Even this power does not know that its mission is to tear away from human society all the things that enslave, all interest and debt and exploitatiou; to destroy all the economy patterned fter Babylon; to do away with all false teachers and teaching. All nations will take part in this and the war will go on until the cleansing is complete and the people are ready for the government of the Kingdom. |