"The Age to Come"
BY JOSEPH MARSH
ROCHESTER, N. Y., PUBLISHED AT THE ADVENT HARBINGER OFFICE 1851
NO MORE WAR
for, speaking of the same, the prophet Isaiah says:
Isa. ii. 4. "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall
beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
The same prediction, in nearly the same words, is uttered by the prophet Micah, in chapter iv. 3. And
Zechariah, speaking on the same subject, says:
"And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the
battle-bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace to the heathen: and his dominion shall be
from sea to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth." Zech. ix. 10.
Widely different will be the administration of the righteous law of Christ, during this day of millennial
glory, from the unrighteous and oppressive reign of despotic kings and rulers, for the six thousand years
previous. Then, as Isaiah predicts,
Isa. xxxii. 1, 2. "A King shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be
as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the
shadow of a great rock in a weary land, and, "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be
no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment
and with justice from henceforth even forever." Isa. ix. 7.
These predictions, most cheering to the friends of peace and righteousness, are but a small portion of the
many that might be quoted; but they are sufficient to prove to the satisfaction of all who admit the truth of
revelation, that there will be no war under the millennial reign of Christ. O, how great and glorious will be
the change, from the present state of warring nations of the earth. Now, vast amounts of money, labor,
time and life are sacrificed upon the bloody altar of war; but then, all will be devoted to the happiness of
mankind. Now, fields covered with the dead and dying; desolated countries and ruined cities; the widow's
wail and the orphan's plaintive moan: poverty, famine, pestilence and crime, are the terrible fruits of war;
but then, peace and plenty and joy will fill the world.
Glorious day, and greatly desired by all the children of God. If under its beams of heavenly light, no other
change than from a state of war to that of peace is effected, there is sufficient cause why we should long
for its dawn, or, most fervently pray, "Thy Kingdom come." But universal peace is not the only blessing
of that day of glory; for then the . . .