"I was educated in the school of a king who was, before all things, just; and I have tried, like him, always to preach love and charity, I have always mistrusted warlike preparations, of which nations seem never to tire. Some day this accumulated material of soldiers and guns will burst into flames in a frightful war that will throw humanity into mourning on earth and grieve our universal Father in heaven." As the race of armaments went forward on a scale never before thought of, statesmen and writers began to make use of the word "Armageddon" to describe the conflict that they saw was inevitable. Years ago the London _Contemporary Review_ said: "Odd things are happening everywhere.... Russia, Germany, England--these are great names; they palpitate with great ideas; they have vast destinies before them, and millions of armed men in their pay, all awaiting Armageddon." In June, 1909, Lord Rosebery, in a speech before a press convention in London, commented gravely upon the significance of the feverish haste with which the nations were arming themselves, "as if for some great Armageddon, and that in a time of the profoundest peace." To quote from a popular American magazine, of the same year: "Today all Europe is divided into two armed camps, waiting breathlessly for the morrow with its Armageddon."--_Everybody's Magazine, November, 1909._ Thus, everywhere, observers saw that the rivalry of interests among the nations was leading to a conflict so overwhelmingly vast that only the Scriptural word "Armageddon," with its appeal to the imagination, seemed adequately suggestive of its proportions. Every passing year added to the intensity of feeling and the antagonism of interests. In 1911 the London _Nineteenth Century and After_ said: [Illustration: UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP "NEVADA" Photograph taken from the Manhattan Bridge. New York. COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD. N.Y.] "Never was national and racial feeling stronger upon earth than it is now. Never was preparation for war so tremendous and so sustained. Never was striking power so swift and so terribly formidable.... The shadow of conflict and of displacement greater than any which mankind has known since Attila and his Huns were stayed at Chalons, is visibly impending over the world. Almost can the ear of imagination hear the gathering of the legions for the fiery trial of peoples, a sound vast as the trumpet of the Lord of hosts."--_Quoted in the Literary Digest, May 6, 1911._ [Illustration: COMRADES AFTER THE BATTLE Soldiers bringing in two wounded captives. PHOTO BY CENTRAL PHOTO SERVICE. N.Y.] What the ancient prophecy foretold--the preparing of war in the last days, the waking up and arming of the nations--we have seen fulfilling before our eyes in this generation. Satanic Agencies at Work