FOR millions of people belonging to the present warring nations, the future seems so laden with evil portent, with the threat of privation, danger, and death, that one of the greatest questions occupying thought at the present time must be, Is there no way of escape from all of this evil? There are many who feel themselves being driven forward to certain doom without the power to resist. But is this inevitable? Biblical history indicates that it is not inevitable, and that men have the right and power of appeal to God against injustice.
A familiar example is that of the children of Israel, in Egypt, whose bondage seemed so complete and overwhelming as to be inescapable. Yet it was broken, and a way out provided. And even when, after a few days' flight, they found themselves in the apparently hopeless position of being hemmed in between the impassable Red Sea and Pharaoh's pursuing army, they were again saved from disaster and emerged triumphant.
Again, when Elisha was beleaguered at Dothan, and his servant rose and went forth in the morning to find the city completely surrounded by the Syrian army, it certainly appeared, to human sense, as though disaster had overtaken them. But Elisha was undisturbed. He knew the way out because God showed it to him, just as He had shown the way out to Moses.
