"ARMAGEDDON.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 53, 19 October 1914, Page 4

"ARMAGEDDON.”

How many of those who are just now writing about ‘ ‘Armageddon” realise tho full force of the allusion. A respectable minority doubtless understands that the reference is to the Boole of Revelation, and some may recall the tremendous significance of

the words wrapped up as it were be-

tween two clause# of the statement that “the kings of the earth and of the whole world” were gathered “to the battle of that groat day of ‘Hod Almighty. . . into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” Between verses 14 and 16 of the Sixteenth Chapter, from winch we have quoted, stands the solemn warning; “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is ho that watchoth and keepeth his garments, lost he walk naked, and they see his shame.” The London “Guardian” says that crises of history do come very suddenly, and it fares ill with the nation that is unprepared. Many, again, are content to repeat the name “Armageddon” without troubling to ask what it means. And it means a good deal. For it signifies the hill or cHy of Magiddo, on the southern rim of the Plain of Esdraelon, the author of the Apocalypse, having in his mind one of the most famous battle-grounds of Palestine, memorable for the victories of Barak and Gideon, as well as for the disasters which overtook Saul and Josiah. To a Jew the name connotes the whole chance of war.