A large daily newspaper, in a recent editorial on "War and Peace," cited all the wars, strikes, and unrest now existing on earth, and alluded to all the threatened disruptions between nations, concluding with the question, " How can we account for the seething unrest, the wars, actual and threatening, among the nations ? "

For a true reply to such a great and important question, let us turn to that unfailing guide-the Bible.

First:Cain slaying Abel (Gen. 4 :8) shows that strife, unrest, and dissatisfaction on man's part, are virtually as old as sin itself, being direct results of sin which Satan introduced into the world.

Second:In view of Romans 5:12, " Sin entered into the world, and death by sin," we know that sin and death will travel together until God's appointed time. The fact that death still lays its iron grip upon the sons of men, proves that sin is in man and is swaying the affairs of nations.

Third:It may be asked, "Will the gospel of Christ, by which thousands are being saved from the present dominion and future judgment of sin, result in the extermination of sin and death?" The answer is found in the Gospel of Luke (chap. 17, ver. 26)-the same rebellious conditions toward Christ, will prevail until the future second coming of Christ to earth. Hence, sin and death will be operative until at least that time.

Again, looking past the above event (that is, after the Lord has come and reigned a thousand years on the earth-Rev. 20 :7-9), Satan will be allowed to exercise his power for a season (as he now does) to test the unregenerate, who will again rise in rebellion against God, and death to all such will be the result.

We read, therefore, in i Cor. 15 :26, "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death," and with death, sin of course. From Rev. 20:7-15 we have seen that the time of the end of sin and death will be immediately prior to the judgment of all the unsaved at the end of time.

Fourth:From the foregoing scriptures we learn that the unrest, wars and death among men are attributable to sin still being here, and that such conditions will continue to prevail until the end of the present world, being blessedly interrupted, of course, while Christ actually reigns, during the Millennium, over the entire earth, where Satan now so largely governs the moral affairs of men and nations (2 Cor. 4 :3,4). We have also learned that while multitudes are accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour from approaching judgment-are you one such, dear reader ?-nevertheless other multitudes refuse Him (John 5 :40), and live necessarily in strife, unrest, and dissatisfaction, hastening on to the judgment of Rev. 20:12-15.

It is true that there are a number of people spending their time and money in efforts toward having universal peace on the earth, but all such will be in vain, as they cannot change the heart of man.

We find from i Thess. 5:2,3 that when men are preaching peace, "Then sudden destruction cometh upon them." All human efforts to improve the heart of mankind are useless, and nothing will avail but this-our individual, personal acceptance of the Lord Jesus' invitation:"Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matt, n :28). All others continue in sin and unrest to the end.

Is the reader one of those who have found rest to their souls in Christ ?
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