For a Supreme Navy

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 24, 1914

For a Supreme Navy

A LARGE meeting was held a few days ago at Guild Hall, in London, at which the lord mayor presided. Representative business men, said to have holdings amounting to billions of dollars, were the moving spirits. They gave unqualified and unanimous endorsement to the British policy of maintaining a "supreme navy."

It was from leading statesmen in England that the suggestion came for the world to take "a naval holiday"; that is, that all the leading nations of earth, by common agreement, would not build any more war-ships for a whole year. This naval holiday proposition has been much discussed, and prominent men in several nations have supported the plan, but the practical answer that comes to it is for each nation to add to the already strenuous effort for increasing naval and military power.

It will be noted that it is the business men of London, representing billions of money invested in various commercial enterprises, who have so enthusiastically and unanimously voted for England to maintain her naval supremacy.

Ordinary commerce and conquest have been occasion for a great many of the wars of the past. This is a commercially mad age. The "Napoleons of finance and commerce" have created international problems, and in the list of these is the great war problem. Notwithstanding all of our talk of peace, and notwithstanding the fact that to have peace is the sensible and desirable and only right thing, and notwithstanding our boasted civilization and progress, we are nevertheless unable to dethrone the war demons. The war fever reaches a higher degree each succeeding year, and becomes more intense.

A great many people are laughing at what the divine Book says. But it is a striking fact, however, that numerous and strongly clear Scripture prophecies make known definitely the real meaning of this war disease that is spreading like a malignant contagion into every part of the world.