of the day, were loudly voicing the same empty boast up to the day before the awful conflict began; and, ever since, our Lord’s words have been fully applicable. Nation after nation has been drawn into the struggle, and the end is not yet. The nations seem war-mad and demon-led as the time draws near for the great Armageddon conflict yet to be fought out in the land of Palestine, when all nations shall be drawn into the fray. Even should peace intervene, it will prove to be but a temporary truce,
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