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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 30, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 52.

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Note and Comment

A Voice From the Orient

TRULY enough, there is a waking up of the vast heathen nations to prepare for Armageddon. And the nations of Christendom have set the example. The Bishop of Gibraltar, writing in a London paper, quotes the following from a Chinese writer:—
Yes, it is we who do not accept the gospel of peace. It is we who practise it. It is you who accept the gospel that trample it under feet; and, irony of ironies! it is the nations of Christendom who have come to us to teach us by sword and fire that the right in this world is powerless unless it is supported by might. O, do not doubt that we shall learn the lesson! And woe to Europe when we shall have acquired it. You are arming a nation of four hundred millions,—a nation which, until you came, had no better wish than to live at peace with itself and all the world. In the name of Christ you have sounded the call to arms, in the name of Confucius we respond.
And the millions are arming and drilling, in East and West, for the coming clash of nations, as predicted in the “sure word of prophecy.”