CHINA has been termed the sleeping giant. For long centuries she has pursued the even tenor of her way, with but little active participation in questions of international concern. Her awakening, however, seems at hand. A new spirit has entered into the Orient during the last few years. The unrest in India, with the agitation and clamor for native government, the new spirit possessing Japan, and the awakening in the mighty Chinese empire,—all these conditions have afforded food for deep thought to observing students of the times. What part these nations will play in the close of earth’s history, the wisest human philosopher can not safely predict. Dr. J. J. Spencer, president of Morgan College, Baltimore, in an address before the Baltimore annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, discusses this interesting situation. As reported in the Washington Post of March 31, he expresses the fear that the time will soon come when the Asiatics will overrun Western civilization. As a safeguard against this threatened invasion, he says we should— teach these Eastern peoples Christianity. If we do not do this, and persist in teaching them how to form armies and navies, they will sweep us off the earth one of these days. Already we can see the effects of this in the progress made by Japan in the last fifty years. Beware of the Chinese. They are a mighty people; and when aroused to a full sense of their power, they will do things, and will no doubt treat us as we are treating them at present. To get along with these people, we must treat them as equals, not as subordinates. This is a day of opportunity to do for these nations what Dr. Spencer suggests. The desire existing in so many hearts in these Eastern countries for broader education, for a knowledge of Western ways, makes these people comparatively much more susceptible than ever before to Christian influences; and now is the time that the Christian church should improve this opportunity to teach them the principles of the gospel of Christ.