THE WORLD-PROBLEM

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1900

THE WORLD-PROBLEM

continues to grow more complex in its involving of the Powers. It is found that the Chinese have lately imported great quantities of the most modern arms and ammunition; and that since the war with Japan, under the training of European officers the Chinese army has attained a high grade of efficiency. This is making the task of “the allied Powers” much more difficult than any of them expected. It seems to be another Boer situation, only greatly enlarged. There is yet no certain word as to the fate of the embassies, except that of Russia. The latest word is that the Russian minister and his wife were savagely massacred. The other Powers have scarcely any hope that their envoys and legations have met any other fate. With all communications from China shut off, and the way to Peking blocked by mighty armies, all that the Powers can do is to anxiously wait while they hurry forward large bodies of troops, and more battle-ships. How much further will the things have to go this way, before the world shall have entered upon the time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation? The end cometh. “Get ready, get ready, get ready.”