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 "THE WHY 
 
 AND THE WHEREFORE 
 
 OF THE EUROPEAN WAR' 
 
 Bible Study by 
 
 Max Wertheimer, Ph. D. 
 
 Ex' Rabbi 
 
 FOR SALE BY 
 
 ., E. B. UNGER, 
 
 I 1924 N. JUDSON ST., PHILADELPHIA. PA. 
 

 Copyright, 1917 
 
 JAN 31 1917 
 
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FOREWORD 
 
 I can state positively that the fol- 
 lowing pages contain substantially 
 the message I delivered in the Bethle- 
 hem Presbyterian Church, Philadel- 
 phia, on November 19, 1916. Mr. E. B. 
 tlnger, the stenographic reporter, took 
 down my uttered words. May our 
 Gracious Lord Jesus use them for 
 strengthening the believers and for a 
 testimonv to the worldly-minded. 
 
 MAX WERTHEIMER. 
 
THE WHY AND THE WHEREFORE 
 OF THE EUROPEAN WAR" 
 
 A few preliminary stateineiits ought 
 to be made before giving the message. 
 I want you to know that I sympathize 
 with all suffering humanity; whether 
 they be Germans, French, Russians, 
 Greeks, English, or whatever national- 
 ity or color they may be, my heart goes 
 out for the orphans and the widows 
 who are victims of terrific circum- 
 stances. I shall speak tonight not from 
 any patriotic standpoint, but simply as 
 a student of prophetic history — that is 
 the plan from which I intend to handle 
 this subject. 
 
 It has often been remarked, since the 
 beginning of this war, that such high- 
 ly civilized nations should be engaged 
 in such a warfare, and that a nation 
 like Germany, and one of the aggres- 
 sors in the warfare, should be crowned 
 with such great military successes. I 
 say these things have been commented 
 upon. 
 
 Now I want you to notice that to- 
 night T wish to lay down some methods 
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and some ways by which God gauges the 
 nations. For instance, in the eighth cen- 
 tury before Christ one of the most epoch- 
 making nations of antiquity was the 
 most successful in mihtary achieve- 
 ments, and that nation, because of its 
 mihtary exploits, was disposed to boast 
 of its great achievements. Now in the 
 10th chapter of Isaiah we get into the 
 very heart and secret of why that na- 
 tion was successful. That nation is the 
 Assyrian nation. I will begin from 
 the 10th chapter and the 5th verse, 
 (oth to 7th verses.) And now a num- 
 ber of statements are made relative to 
 what this Assyrian says in his heart, 
 which I will not read, but I will start 
 from the 12th verse. In the 15th verse 
 is what God says concerning this boast. 
 The Lord says of this Assyrian, with 
 such great military achievements and 
 such great boasts, "What is he? Why 
 he is an axe — I hew it; he is a staff — 
 I swing it; and when I am done with 
 it, I will break it in pieces and get me 
 another one." 
 
 In the 36th chapter of Isaiah this 
 Assyrian again boasts — which I can- 
 not read for lack of time — and in the 
 26th and 27th verses of the 37th chap- 
 ter the Lord again addressed him. We 
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have even a more remarkable case of 
 military success in the 27th chapter of 
 Jeremiah, and which is even more 
 startling than the one of Isaiah X. — all 
 of which brings us into God's ways and 
 methods of looking at the nations. 
 
 In the 27th chapter of Jeremiah, 
 2d verse, Jeremiah is asked '^to make 
 bonds and yokes and put them upon 
 thy neck, and send them to the king 
 of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and 
 to the king of the Ammonites, and to 
 the king of Tyrus, and to the king of 
 Zidon, by the hand of the messengers 
 which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah 
 king of Judah." In the 4th verse they 
 are to say unto their masters, "Thus 
 saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of 
 Israel; thus shall ye say unto your 
 masters: 'I have made the earth, the 
 man and the beast that are upon the 
 ground, by my great power and by my 
 outstretched arm, and have given it 
 unto whom it seemed meet unto me. 
 And now I have given all these lands 
 into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the 
 king of Babylon, my servant; and the 
 beasts of the field have I given him also 
 to serve him.' " (7th to 12th verses.) 
 It was really surprising that a heath- 
 en king with such disregard for the 
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high God of Heaven should be given 
 all these countries; that all these na- 
 tions must put their neck under his 
 yoke, and that even Israel, His cove- 
 nant people, should be in servitude to 
 a heathen monarch. I say this was the 
 most sta.2;gering blow that was given 
 at that time to the ancient people, and 
 they could not fathom it. But four 
 hundred years before Jeremiah proph- 
 esied this there was a prophetic Billy 
 Sunday of his day by the name of 
 Amos. (Amos 1:2-3.) He was a cow- 
 boy. I will read the remainder of the 
 1st chapter of Amos and the 2d chap- 
 ter, 1st to 9th verses. 
 
 That God is still on deck. He is the 
 God of the nations. He has never 
 made an assignment. He is still ruling, 
 beloved friends. 
 
 To go back to the original statement 
 with which we started out, I say it 
 seems queer that out of the war suffer- 
 ers little Belgium should be one of the 
 worst, and if we believe in justifiable 
 war we say Belgium is justified in tak- 
 ing up arms against the invaders who 
 had no other reason to go against it, 
 but simply because Belgium lies in the 
 pathway of Germany's greatest enemy, 
 France. The man who from the sur- 
 
face looks at the thing is startled, yet 
 any one who is conversant with Bel- 
 gium's history says that God's hand is 
 in it. 
 
 Do you remember some time ago 
 Stanley discovered an immense new 
 territory in Africa that is known as the 
 Congo Free State? Fourteen European 
 nations and the United States agreed 
 to reserve that great territory for an 
 experiment in philanthropic civiliza- 
 tion. Now no one of the larger coun- 
 tries could take hold of that great terri- 
 tory for fear of arousing the suspicion 
 of the other powers that it would make 
 aggressions for the country, and so all 
 the nations acting together, agreed to 
 appoint Leopold, the king of Belgium, 
 as a joint trustee in the administration 
 of that vast territory known as the 
 Congo Free State, with an extent of 
 about 9000 square miles, about as large 
 as Austro-Hungary, France, Germany, 
 Italy, Portugal and Switzerland com- 
 bined. In due course there arose a 
 demand for rubber, with which the 
 forests of the Congo abounded. King 
 Leopold leased concessions to the trad- 
 ing companies, for which he received, 
 it is claimed by some, as much as $14,- 
 000,000 a year from these trading 
 
companies. He gave almost unlimited 
 authority to these trading companies 
 in the matter of dealing with the na- 
 tives. As long as the rubber was forth- 
 coming, and was secured near the 
 villages in the forests, things were not 
 so very distressing. Naturally the 
 rubber within easy access gave out and 
 the people who had to secure the rub- 
 ber were compelled to go into the 
 interior of the forests, and that entailed 
 extra traveling and extra expenditure. 
 Now the trading companies demanded 
 that the same amount of rubber must 
 be furnished and just as cheap as be- 
 fore, whether the supply gave out or not. 
 In the course of time, when the rubber 
 was not forthcoming an assessment tax 
 was imposed upon the natives, and 
 when the assessment was not forth- 
 coming there was enforced upon the 
 people so-called punishment. This 
 punishment ranged all the way from 
 a mere flogging to cutting off a hand 
 or foot or arm or dismembering the 
 body and massacring whole villages, 
 and these things were done to set an 
 example to the other natives not to be 
 lax in their rubber assessments. 
 
 Now the native soldiers who exe- 
 cuted these punishments thought this 
 
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was a fine chance to pay off old tribal 
 grudges. It is claimed that since 1884, 
 when King Leopold was made the 
 trustee, or when he was appointed over 
 that territory, that no less than 10,000- 
 000 natives were slaughtered, and the 
 cries of these natives were mounting 
 up to Heaven, and the missionaries in 
 the jungles in Africa were petitioning 
 God Almighty to hear and intercede 
 for that down-trodden people. He 
 heard, and sent the Germans to de- 
 vastate Belgium. We heard that they 
 cut off the feet, cut off the arms, cut 
 off the legs, dismembered the bodies, 
 and massacred whole villages, and 
 great persecutions were entailed. The 
 God of the nations is still alive, beloved 
 friends: He is still demanding just 
 retribution. *See page 32. 
 
 Let me go a little further. England 
 is in this war. She is in this war from 
 no will of her own choosing; she is in 
 this war mostly because she has pledged 
 her support to Belgium, by treaty. Now 
 let us look at England. England's 
 possessions in Africa have been com- 
 paratively fairly well administered. 
 Also, the administration in India was 
 fairly good with some exceptions. How- 
 ever, to civilize the vast plains of India 
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involved a great expenditure. How to 
 meet this vast expenditure in order to 
 civilize the great stretches of territory 
 in India was a question. England in 
 the last century, adopted the plan to 
 raise opium in India and sell it in 
 China. But at that time China herself 
 was trying to stamp out that very drug 
 from the nation; they were sick of it, 
 yet England forced it upon China. By 
 what is known as The Opium War of 
 1840, followed by another war, they 
 created a market for opium, which en- 
 riched India but debauched China, and 
 probably all the money England has 
 made in opium she is going to lose in 
 this war, because the God of the nations 
 will demand a just settlement. You 
 will find out another reason why Eng- 
 land has war troubles in a minute or 
 two. 
 
 Now Germany is in this war. Why 
 should she be in the war? Ger- 
 many, the home of Martin Luther, the 
 home of the Reformation, where great 
 epochs were created through godly 
 men. Germany, the home of Melanch- 
 ton, Franke, Tholuck and Neander, 
 Germany has a very kind-hearted 
 population, and her people are quiet 
 and obedient to the authorities. I am 
 
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not talking about the counnon people. 
 I am talking about tlie bureaucracy, 
 the officialdom that rules Germany. I 
 wish you to notice, beloved friends, 
 that in philosophy Germany has been 
 the leader for centuries. Treitschke, 
 who Avas for more than twenty years 
 the most popular professor in Berlin, 
 Avas one of the great leaders in phil- 
 osophy. His great motto by which he 
 guided his philosophical disputations 
 was founded on this: ''Might is right!" 
 Beloved friends, mere brute force is 
 never right; not "might is right," but 
 "Right^ — that is might." I believe when 
 you have a foundation like this to build 
 on, you cannot expect to raise a great 
 structure that will be pleasing to our 
 Lord. 
 
 There was another great philosopher 
 in Germany by the name of Nitzsche. 
 He was the son of a Lutheran minister. 
 This son had mental aberrations. He 
 was in his insane moments locked up 
 in an asylum. During his lucid in- 
 tervals, however, he wrote a number of 
 books. He died afterwards in that 
 asylum, but those books that he had 
 written are today the text books in 
 universities. The leading thought in 
 Nitzsche's philosophy is force, brute 
 
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force, the superman, '^der Ueber- 
 mensch," as he calls it, an embodiment 
 of brute force, a picture of Satan him- 
 self. Anything that is powerful to 
 knock down the weak, to get there by 
 any means fair or foul, that is the 
 emphasis of his philosophy. 
 
 Beloved friends, the religion of Ger- 
 many was powerless against teaching 
 like that, for what is morally wrong 
 cannot be politically right in the eyes 
 of God. Germany has officially ac- 
 cepted Evolution and Darwinism. She 
 has been working overtime in that. She 
 has been turning out thousands and 
 thousands of students; students from 
 all the countries; students from Eng- 
 land, from France, from Austria, from 
 Russia, from America, for the last two 
 generations have flocked over to their 
 universities and to their colleges and 
 seminaries to drink from such poisoned 
 wells teachings of rationalism and 
 world wisdom, and after such a course 
 of instruction they went back to their 
 respective homes as teachers and 
 preachers to undermine the faith of 
 millions in the infallible word of God 
 and the essentials of Christianity. 
 
 I wish you to notice, if Evolution 
 and Darwinism are right, then Ger- 
 
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many in this war acted perfectly cor- 
 rect and orthodox. If Evolution is 
 right, then Germany in her prepara- 
 tion for war has been correct; for if 
 Evolution is true, then such things as 
 meekness, kindness, love, long suffer- 
 ing, which are commanded by the 
 Holy Scriptures, would be weak- 
 nesses. According to Evolution a nation 
 that indulges in tenderness and loving- 
 kindness and unselfishness is unfit to 
 survive. Germany has applied this 
 Evolutionary process to commercial 
 things, and brought on colossal monop- 
 oly, industrial oppression and whole- 
 sale thefts. It has also been applied to 
 religion and religious literature, and 
 has produced optimistic twaddles, un- 
 concern for man's responsibility to God, 
 and climaxed into higher criticism, 
 which is simply Evolution applied to 
 the inspired Scriptures. 
 
 You have heard of the Father of 
 Higher Criticism, Wellhausen, who 
 said the Old Testament was a fabrica- 
 tion of forgeries and lies, various man- 
 invented documents patched together. 
 He analyzed in this way the Old Testa- 
 ment, but that wasn't sufficient; he 
 also wrote a commentary on the New 
 Testament. When he came to write 
 
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about the gospels of Matthew and Luke, 
 he omitted the first two chapters of 
 them because they deal with the super- 
 natural, and according to Evolution 
 such a thing is impossible, so he ig- 
 nored the miraculous, the divine cre- 
 dentials of God's workmanship. 
 
 I was this summer in Baltimore 
 preaching for three weeks, and I told 
 those astonished people in Baltimore 
 they need not be so staggered at my 
 words against higher criticism, for 
 they have officially adopted it in their 
 Johns Hopkins University there — that 
 propagates rapidly Wellhausen's the- 
 ories. 
 
 In Germany they had another 
 writer by the name of David Strauss, 
 who published about 82 years ago ''Das 
 Leben Jesu." He presents the life of 
 Jesus as a common, ordinary person, 
 and the gospel as a fabrication of myth- 
 ologies. I tell you the God of Heaven 
 will not allow His Holy Immaculate 
 Son to be insulted and evilly spoken 
 of. And was it not eminently fitting, 
 that God's scourge and battle-axe in 
 His hand, should be that nation to 
 which all the other nations have been 
 
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turning to get Evolutionary wisdom, 
 culture, refinement and inspiration? 
 And so, thus to call attention to the 
 fruits of this Christian civilization 
 (Gal. 6:7 expresses it all), what men 
 and women need is not civilization 
 merely, they must be born again (John 
 3:3), spiritually regenerated, not ex- 
 ternally veneered, but they need a 
 mighty spiritual revolution from with- 
 in. 
 
 Germany is in this war for a purpose. 
 England has not only had laid to her 
 charge the idea of imposing opium on 
 China, but, also the city of London 
 today is a whirlpool of filth. Think 
 of the godlessness, the worldliness, the 
 neglected opportunities! They tell me 
 that seventy-five per cent, of the popu- 
 lation turn their backs upon the Christ 
 of God and never enter a house of 
 worship. It is even claimed officially 
 by some that the universities of Cam- 
 bridge and Oxford, instead of standing 
 four-square for the deity of the Christ 
 of God, are catering to the promiscuous 
 population of Great Britain and are 
 preaching Pantheism, Mohammedan- 
 ism and Hinduism in their universities. 
 
 But France is in this war too. What 
 has France done? Let us say it in a 
 
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few words. Her legalized prostitution, 
 her blatant atheism, and her ridicule 
 of all that is spiritual, beloved friends, 
 and many other things like anti-Semi- 
 ticism in the Dreyfus case. All these 
 things have worked havoc for the na- 
 tion. Motherhood was ridiculed, and 
 the smart set in France has always 
 been the set that were the leaders. Now 
 God says, "that for three and four 
 transgressions I will hold France re- 
 sponsible." 
 
 Russia is in this war. What has she 
 done? She has bottled up six millions 
 of Jews in a limited pale, in Russia, 
 and not permitted them to go out. She 
 has closed the doors of her colleges and 
 universities to most of the Jews, and 
 if any Jewess today wants to go to a 
 high school, or any college or universi- 
 ty, first before she can do that she must 
 go to the chief of police and ask for 
 the yellow ticket of a prostitute and 
 thus degrade her womanhood. That is 
 Russia for you! Russia is a peculiar 
 nation. The Greek Catholic Church 
 has opposed itself to every advance of 
 the gospel of the Christ of God. All 
 these things stand charged against 
 Russia. Need I speak of the cruel 
 pogroms, the Kishinev massacres of 
 
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innocent Jews and Jewesses and the 
 throttled voices in Siberia? 
 
 What is the matter with Turkey? 
 The wholesale slaughter of the Armen- 
 ians, and the persecution of the people 
 in Palestine. Turkey is usually called 
 the ^'Sick Man." I want you to notice 
 that Turkey holds the greatest gateway 
 of commercial power in the East, for 
 she holds the gateway from the 
 Bosporus to Bagdad. They want a rail- 
 way established from Bagdad to Baby- 
 lon. When the long-talked-of Euphra- 
 tes Valley Railway becomes a reality, 
 Babylon will be one of the most im- 
 portant and strategic places on the line. 
 Few realize the magnitude of the 
 Sultan's Asiatic dominions. They form 
 the most important section of the 
 earth's surface in connection with the 
 international political situation of the 
 near future. It is the most productive 
 country between the Euphrates and 
 the Tigris, but that fertile region needs 
 irrigation of her ruined canals, and the 
 German Emperor himself has an in- 
 terest in the irrigation process. When 
 once it is irrigated that land will pros- 
 per and thrive and will be the granary 
 of the world. Now Turkey has the key 
 and has opposed all advance by others 
 
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and has been very obstinate to the 
 spread of the gospel of the Christ of 
 God. 
 
 Well, Austria, what has she done? 
 Austria is the land of the Blue Danube 
 waltz, the land of fun and frolic. They 
 ridicule all that is holy and godly. Of 
 course, according to the Roman Cath- 
 olic Church, they go to their masses, 
 but the people at large in heart are 
 atheistically inclined. The cruelty of 
 the dead monarch, Francis Joseph, his 
 double life, his estrangement with his 
 wife, and his love affairs with other 
 married women, the ruthless spirit of 
 vengeance which controlled him in the 
 early years of his rule — all these were 
 seed-plots for this war in Europe, which 
 has engulfed scores of nations and 
 kingdoms. 
 
 How about Italy and the other coun- 
 tries? I will not go into detail about 
 that. Suffice it to say that God is deal- 
 ing with these nations for their na- 
 tional sins. That is one reason why 
 this war is on. Greece, Syria, Mace- 
 donia, are in this upheavel — all this is 
 prophetic territory according to Dan- 
 iel (8th chapter) ; God is getting ready 
 for that. 
 
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Now let me make a statement. The 
 United States never got into this war. 
 I am glad to say that while Ave had a 
 President who was being criticised by 
 others, he is at least a godly man, I 
 believe — at least he stemmed the tide 
 of warfare in this country. But this 
 country itself has been the rebuke of 
 the Lord, for you remember what hap- 
 pened in 1861 to 1865. Slavery was 
 charged against this country, and she 
 had to yield the blood of her fathers 
 and sons to wipe out this iniquity. 
 While this country is not at Avar, it is 
 paying war prices for its food. Let me 
 tell you another thing. When I look 
 around and see what is going on with 
 the masses of America's promiscuous 
 population on the Lord's Day; how 
 they never come to the church, never 
 have family worship; how the people 
 do not care for God or Christ or the 
 Holy Spirit, and there is no reverential 
 attitude for the word of God today; 
 when I see the United States is taking 
 an enormous share from the whiskey 
 traffic, and from what is sold to the 
 warring countries, I tremble, for God 
 will hold them responsible. This coun- 
 try, beloved friends, has a state of op- 
 pression coming on. Strikes and wars 
 
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are almost imminent. When I see this, 
 I tremble; I tremble for America, be- 
 loved friends. Sooner or later she will 
 be engulfed in this universal agony of 
 war. 
 
 How did it come to pass that the 
 people of Germany, France and the 
 other nations, over night, as it were, 
 were changed into maniacs, willing to 
 pound and to rush upon one another 
 and to murder each other? How did 
 that happen? How did that happen 
 over night? I am going to say some- 
 thing I know will be received by some 
 as a great superstition, but I want to 
 tell you what the Lord declares. God 
 says He employs satanic agencies in 
 warfare. Refer to 1 Kings, 22d chapter. 
 I will have to read some verses in order 
 to make myself understood. 1 Kings, 
 22d chapter. I will give you a second 
 illustration in Revelation, 16th chap- 
 ter, beginning with the 13th verse. 
 (Verses 13 and 14.) Here you have 
 something that is coming in the future. 
 
 Now I am going to show you some- 
 thing to which I alluded the other 
 evening, but which was too horrible to 
 give at that time, but I will refer to it 
 now, and I refer to something that is 
 almost unspeakable — the 9th chapter 
 
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of Revelation. Be sure that you see it 
 in the word of God. (1st to 3rd verses, 
 inclusive.) Now these are not material 
 locusts, but these are demoniac mon- 
 sters, demons dressed up like locusts. 
 (4th to 21st verses, inclusive.) Now I 
 will give you something even more 
 startling than this prophecy, beloved 
 friends. Take the 25th chapter of 
 Jeremiah, beginning at the 15th verse. 
 (15th to 33rd verses, inclusive.) Be 
 sure you study this as God's spoken 
 oracle. 
 
 Beloved friends, ''God has a con- 
 troversy with the nations." What is 
 that controversy? They have turned 
 their backs against the Christ of God, 
 beloved friends. Remember that same 
 Jesus who was crucified has been made 
 Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36.) 
 
 Now 1 am going to ask you which 
 nation on earth today in official docu- 
 ments ever acknowledges the lordship of 
 Jesus Christ? And yet you say we are 
 ''Christian'' nations. I will tell you 
 what they say: They acknowledge 
 God Almighty, but the lordship of 
 Jesus Christ is ignored by them all. 
 God wants His Son Avell spoken of. The 
 people that forget God — what about 
 Psalms 9:17? He has a controversy 
 
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with the nations, and the controversy 
 is about this. Worldly people are heard 
 to exclaim that ''Christianity is a fail- 
 ure," because it did not prevent this 
 war. But the Christian Church was 
 never commissioned to put an end to 
 w^ar. That shows ignorance of God's 
 word. The disciples of Christ were 
 separated from the world and sent back 
 into it, as citizens of a foreign country 
 to present the claims of Jesus the Christ 
 their King, urging faith and obedience 
 to Him as the only way of salvation 
 from sin, and His personal return to 
 this earth as the only hope of the race. 
 Their business was not to convert the 
 world, but to "take out from the nations 
 a people for His name." (Acts 15:14- 
 18.) Wars must continue to the very 
 end of age. (Daniel 9:24-27.) I have 
 no quarrel with the Christianity of any 
 nation, but I w^ant to say that there are 
 no Christian nations acknowledging 
 the lordship of the Christ of God. We 
 have Christian individuals here and 
 there who do acknowledge His lord- 
 ship. 
 
 Listen! I want you to notice, how- 
 ever, that the so-called "Christianity" 
 of the nations in Europe is a very cor- 
 rupt Christianity; it is a perversion of 
 
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it, a counterfeit. When ,the Samaritans 
 would not receive the Lord Jesus Christ 
 the two disciples said to Him, "Send 
 down fire among the Samaritans." 
 Jesus said, 'The Son of Man is not 
 come to destroy men's hves, but to save 
 men's Hves." (Luke 9:55-56.) Our 
 Lord never intends to shoot down peo- 
 ple unless they take the law to them- 
 selves. The Magistrate bears the Sword 
 of Authority, according to Romans 
 13:4. 
 
 The Lord Jesus Christ is indeed the 
 God of Love. He is also the Man of 
 War to the rebels against His govern- 
 ment. He must lead. He must be 
 respected. The tocsin call of this 
 slaughter that is going on everyw^here 
 in Europe and the cry of these battles 
 are that the people should repent and 
 humble themselves before God and 
 honor His crucified, risen and ascended 
 Son, Jesus the Christ of God. All that 
 we can do is to do precisely what Abra- 
 ham did in behalf of Sodom and 
 Gomorrah. (Genesis 18:24-32.) Let 
 the godly remnant intercede for the 
 sinners! In these days stand close to 
 the Lord! 
 
 President A¥ilson, when he was in 
 St. Louis, made one of the most epoch- 
 
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makiDg speeches. He said, "We are 
 living in times when I do not know 
 what is going to happen in the next 
 twenty-four hours." This is surely a 
 crucial time. But God works accord- 
 ing to His plan and counsel of His will, 
 and not after that of conceited men. 
 
 But the Jews are in this war too, 
 aren't they? Five hundred thousand 
 Jews are fighting against each other. 
 German Jews fighting against French 
 Jews. Russian Jews fighting against 
 German Jews, and all this whirlpool of 
 Jews against Jews, Catholic against 
 Catholic, Protestant against Protestant. 
 "The Lord is pleading with all flesh." 
 But how about the Jews? The Jews 
 will be so sick and tired and disgusted 
 with the carnage that has been going 
 on in Germany, Russia, France, Italy 
 and Austria, that they will gladly 
 go back to Palestine, at the op- 
 portune hour on God's prophetic clock, 
 and this war is God's beckoning to 
 come back home. The time is up, and 
 there is the call for Israel ; and while 
 we say "we don't want to go back, 
 America is good enough for us," the 
 time is coming when He will cause all 
 nations to drink of this frantic cup of 
 war. Then the turmoil will be on. God 
 
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loves Israel, and He will make good 
 His promises to patriarchs, prophets 
 and priests of old — but according to 
 His own word. If the United States is 
 a nation, she will be included in this 
 universal war. I pray that the Lord 
 may hold off the crisis a little longer 
 and give some people a chance to repent 
 and get right with God. Oh, when I 
 think of the millions of mothers that 
 will be widows, and of children that 
 will be orphans, and of fathers that will 
 never come home when that war is 
 over, I am perplexed! but this is 
 Jehovah's Day of Vengeance. Sup- 
 pose you woke up some morning, and 
 overhead of you bombshells were com- 
 ing down? A thought like this fifteen 
 years ago would have brought laughter 
 among any audience. Well, the people 
 do not laugh today, beloved friends. 
 The statesmen of the nation are puz- 
 zled at the situation, they do not laugh 
 nor rejoice — they hang their heads in 
 perplexity. 
 
 Now what will be the direct outcome 
 of the war? What do they wage war 
 for? The individual nations all have 
 their peculiar reasons for it. Germany 
 will say, ''We want to go East; we 
 want to get to the granaries of the 
 
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world. 'Der Drang nach Osten.' We 
 want that great Anatolian Railway 
 from Konieli to Bagdad, and from 
 Bagdad to Babylon." Great Britain 
 will say, ''We want a railway from the 
 Cape of Good Hope to Cairo, Egypt. We 
 are imbued with Empire lust. We want 
 to colonize Africa and Egypt." What 
 does France want? ''We want to colo- 
 nize ; more elbow room, more opportuni- 
 ties for trade and industry." What is 
 at the bottom of the whole outfit? The 
 love of money is a root of all evil, be- 
 loved friends. That is the point. God 
 is pleading with all flesh. The French 
 Revolution was horrible — when it burst 
 the world was quiet. What will be the 
 outcome of this war? I am not a 
 prophet, nor the son of a prophet; my 
 business is not to prophesy, but un- 
 doubtedly some sort of a peace will be 
 patched up to last forty or fifty years, 
 but no permanent peace. You will 
 notice they will have peace because 
 their financial exchequers will be ex- 
 hausted. They will have peace not 
 because they want it, but because they 
 will have to; they will have no money, 
 and all the billions that have gone from 
 this country I doubt very much if they 
 will ever come back. AVhat will be the 
 
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outcome for this country? Is God a 
 respecter of persons or nations? 
 
 Now I ara going to make a prophetic 
 statement before I close. God is going 
 to have that controversy with the na- 
 tions, but He postpones the punishment 
 of that nation He has so long put in 
 authority. What is that nation? Rus- 
 sia. Read the 38th chapter of Ezekiel. 
 I want to call attention to the 6th verse 
 thereof that I have read. Among the 
 nations that will be with Russia is 
 Gomer and all his hordes. In the 10th 
 chapter of Genesis, verse 3, we are told 
 who Gomer and all his hordes are. One 
 of the sons of Gomer is Ashkenaz. 
 Any intelligent Jew who knows He- 
 brew can tell you who these names 
 refer to. Ashkenaz means Germany, 
 and Ashkenazim are the Germans. I 
 am not a prophet, nor a son of a 
 prophet, but the time is coming when 
 Germany will be under the dominion 
 of, or in partnership with, the Czar of 
 Russia, and Russia will be the greatest 
 worldpower coming against Israel, and 
 then God will punish Russia, the very 
 last of Israel's oppressors. I don't say 
 that this will be the outcome of this 
 present war, but when the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, the Messiah of Israel, appears in 
 
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Glory the 38th and 39th chapters of 
 Ezekiel will be literally enacted. 
 
 Now what is it we can learn, in con- 
 clusion, that we can take home with 
 us, beloved friends? Shall we boast 
 that we are a great people, a great na- 
 tion, with our arts, our sciences and 
 discoveries? Shall we worship the 
 works of our hands and forget the 
 Christ of God? Shall we fall into this 
 up-to-date fashionable idolatry? Then 
 woe will follow/ I am inclined to read 
 you a poem of Rudyard Kipling, writ- 
 ten on the occasion of Queen Victoria's 
 Jubilee in 1897 — of course written 
 from an English standpoint, but true 
 for us: 
 
 God of our fathers, known of old, 
 Lord of our far-flung battle-line, 
 Beneath whose awful hand we hold 
 Dominion over palm and pine — 
 Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
 Lest we forget — lest we forget! 
 
 The tumult and the shouting dies; 
 The captains and the kings depart: 
 Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice. 
 An humble and a contrite heart. 
 Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
 Lest we forget — lest we forget! 
 
 Far- called, our navies melt away; 
 On dune and headland sinks the fire: 
 Lo, all our pomp of yesterday 
 Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! 
 Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, 
 Lest we forget — lest we forget! 
 
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If, drunk with sight of power, we loose 
 Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, 
 Such boastings as the Gentiles use, 
 Or lesser breeds without the Law — 
 Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
 Lest we forget — lest we forget! 
 
 For heathen heart that puts her trust 
 In reeking tube and iron shard. 
 All valiant dust that builds on dust, 
 And guarding, calls not Thee to guard. 
 For Frantic boast and foolish word — 
 Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord! 
 
 Preparedness! Prepare! I want you 
 to think of this: ''Prepare to meet thy 
 God !" In this age of boasting, bragging 
 and human conceits, the words of Jere- 
 miah, 9th chapter, bring us to our 
 senses! Jeremiah 9:23-24. 
 
 ''Thus saith the Lord, 'Let not the 
 wise man boast or glory in his wisdom, 
 neither let the mighty man boast or 
 glory in his might, let not the rich man 
 boast or glory in his riches : but let him 
 that glorieth glory in this, that he un- 
 derstandeth and knoweth Me, that I am 
 the Lord which exercise lovingkind- 
 ness, judgment, and righteousness, in 
 the earth : for in these things I delight,' 
 saith the Lord." 
 
 Psalms 46:10 — "Be still, and know 
 that I am God : I will be exalted among 
 the nations, I will be exalted in the 
 earth." 
 
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* "England is the land where the Bi- 
 ble was honored; where religious free- 
 dom was fought out; where missionary 
 enterprises were inaugurated to the 
 heathens, the Jews, and the unevan- 
 gelized millions on the European and 
 Asiatic continents." 
 
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