THE END OF THE WORLD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 278, 25 May 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE END OF THE WORLD.

(From the Dayton News.)

There is nothing in signs and omens. The stars did not predict this war, and will not predict the fato of the world ncr of the human race. The soothsayers and "prophets" know no more about what is going to happen than anybody ebe; not as much as sensible people 'know, lor the soothsayer and *' prophet" is below the average m menaGod did not pronto the world and go Bway and forget it. His laws are runnin" to-dav even as they have run since iho'hoginning. This war these unholy conditions, have come about through riM natural workings of Cod's laws; no miracles have been performed to precipitate such a catastrophe. It is a law of nature, or of d-d. that when you place vour finger against a, red-hot stove Km are going"to suffcr-and it was jnst «,,1, thing that brought the burns that era now consuming so largo, a part ot tho world. Men touched thour fingers to the stove. They pursued a course that was bound to lead to war. inej bnught it upon themselves. Hut the end of the world is not at (,and. Ttawn cloud- will pass away; lust when, nobody knows. Rut they iiil Mm, even as oilier generations witnewd t'>o pacing cf clouds. The war will ond-wme time. -Men ;, continue to live. Races will not be.-omo extin-t, although they may bo rmnwl. Tlioppcojos is safe. (lvll '-- rio., «ill go on-and anse higher until it overtops wars and strile M».n has not progressed thus fai to over the earth. lie has not Jl,,h<\ « mi of tlie wilderness, to be :;,;;;, ( ;,d back mt« it. w i«««•». Wndhis many o now For ot ,1,0:1 nil. Tho misery rwut us Ji'Vr The uncertainty is nervo-rnchu^ , . I ■ r The si ri|!"rb> for PX- »?%»£% xio.i'i will continue, to i£ < ,>< • , '„« Humrntv will not !*• <I t «d all C ho well-