p. 5 | Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 20, 1908

Note and Comment

_Unrest Among the Nations_

THERE are numerous rumors of war in the air at the present time, and they are restricted to no one portion of the earth. Some persist in the belief that the United States and Japan will soon be engaged in a gigantic struggle, and that it is certain to occur before the completion of the Panama Canal. Others profess to see a conflict approaching between Japan and China. British statesmen are contemplating the possibility of trouble in India as a result of the growing sedition in that country. British officers of the auxiliary forces are instructed to report upon the possibilities for immediate mobilization, and general officers have been ordered to keep themselves in readiness at all times for telegraphic orders. It is stated that plans have been perfected for throwing the entire regular army into India at the shortest possible notice. France is engaged at the present time in a real war in Morocco; Turkey is threatening Persia; and Russia, having promised to guarantee the integrity of Persia’s boundaries, is accumulating a considerable force in the vicinity of Persia’s border. Russia is also massing a strong force on the northern border of China. Wars and rumors of wars—these are the divinely revealed characteristics of the days in which we live. They are trebly designated; first, as the days of “wars and rumors of wars;” second, as the days of the cry of “peace and safety;” and third, as the days of the increase of knowledge. There is no mistaking the time—it is the “time of the end.”