Identifier: ourdayinlightofp00spic (find matches)
Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ey palpitate with great ideas; they havevast destinies before them, and millions of armed men in their pay, aUawaiting Armageddon. In June, 1909, Lord Rosebery, in a speech before a pressconvention in London, commented gravely upon the signifi-cance of the feverish haste with which the nations were arm-ing themselves, as if for some great Armageddon, and thatin a time of the profoundest peace. To quote from a popular American magazine, of the sameyear: Today all Europe is divided into two armed camps, waiting breath-lessly for the morrow with its Armageddon.— Everybodys Magazine,November, 1909. Thus, everywhere, observers saw that the rivalry of in-terests among the nations was leading to a conflict sooverwhelmingly vast that only the Scriptural word Ar-mageddon, with its appeal to the imagination, seemed ade-quately suggestive of its proportions. Every passing year added to the intensity of feeling andthe antagonism of interests. In 1911 the London NineteenthCentury and After said:
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COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD. N. V. BATTLESHIP NEVADA Photograph taken from the ManhattanBridge, New York. Armageddon 341 Never was national and racial feeling stronger upon earth than itis now. Never was preparation for war so tremendous and so sustained.Never was striking power so swift and so terribly formidable. . . . Theshadow of conflict and of displacement greater than any which manlcindhas known since Attila and his Huns were stayed at Chalons, is visiblyimpending over the world. Almost can the ear of imagination hear thegathering of the legions for the fiery trial of peoples, a sound vast as thetrumpet of the Lord of hosts.— Quoted in the Literary Diges t, May 6,1911.

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