Activity and Anxiety by R. C. Porter

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 1, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 47.

Activity and Anxiety

By R. C. Porter

THINGS are moving here in China about as usual. The war conditions have had a tendency to arouse our missionaries to a sense of the shortness of time, and the importance of hastening forward with the message while peace conditions give us so free an opportunity in this great field.

Japan is within five miles of Tsingtau. [Has since taken it.] With fifty thousand soldiers, her main fleet, and heavy guns, it will surely be a very strange thing if she does not succeed in capturing the six thousand Germans within that fortification. What Japan will do next is the live question of the hour here. We trust that she will quietly retire after taking Tsingtau, in case she succeeds.

R. C. P.