(2) “That is a sign which I confess I regard as most ominous. For forty years it has been a platitude to say that ‘Europe is an armed camp,’ and for forty years it has been true that all the nations have been facing each other armed to the teeth, and that has been in some respects a guarantee of peace. Now, what do we see? Without any tangible reason we see the nations preparing new armaments. They cannot arm any more men on land, so they have to seek new armaments upon the sea, piling up these enormous preparations as if for some great Armageddon–and that in a time of profoundest peace.”

The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.  March 1, 1910 Reprints p. 4572-4573

Page heading: Armageddon

The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.  June 1, 1909 p. 161

Section heading: ARMAGEDDON

The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.  June 1, 1909 Reprints p. 4403

“THE OLD claim formerly made here and there by highly imaginative and expectant calamity prophets, that the time was at hand for the great and final conflict, the battle of Armageddon, has died down until one rarely receives a crude tract or hears a pulpit warning to remind him of such impending disaster. Just about the time the wild prophets have yielded to the spirit of brotherhood and peace that has been taking fast hold upon the world, one finds a desperate contention and uproar amongst the ambitious warlords, egged on by mercenary makers of the machines and accoutrements of war and by ambitious hopefuls in uniform, to outdo each other in preparations for the Battle of Armageddon.

The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.  June 1, 1909 Reprints p. 4403

Peace treaties became fashionable, and a week rarely passed without an account of some happy pact between the very nations now most desperately bent on preparing for the great Battle of Armageddon and some one of the nations whom their warlords and captains of the military industry pretended to suspect or fear.

The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.  June 1, 1909 Reprints p. 4403

The troops of Armageddon

Must soon be manifest.

I tremble at their tread,

But I am comforted—

Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence.  October 15, 1907 Reprints p. 4073