Anti-foreign feelings have been very noticeable in those areas as we all know. We have preliminary definite rumblings, coming thun der and storm, of the war of Arm ageddon. Here are the elements of a future desperate conflict. You cannot go over to this area of the world and not see it. Obviously, the part of wisdom is to prepare to avoid the storm. There is only one way, which is to trust Christ and be saved. Take your refuge in the Saviour. There is grave peril in any delay. You do not have any assurance that this tremendous catastrophe could not break out at any moment. While we are watching, let us pray; let us labor; let us win souls; let us strive to see young men and wo men prepared in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do not delay what you know you should do to day in the sight of the Lord.
than half of the world's known supply of oil lies in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and other surrounding countries. The average output is ridiculously small everywhere else in the world compared to what it is over there. For one day, the daily production in that area from one well is nearly 7,000 barrels over against the U.S. average of 13. In dustry in Europe would be crippled if that oil were stopped. Chrome for high speed cutting tools, man ganese for steel, graphite for ra dios are but a few of the materials supplied from the Middle Near East. Geopoliticians world-over tell us that possession of these lands, the heartlands, is essential to world domination. No less an authority than General Eisenhower declared, "As far as the sheer value of terri tory is concerned, there is no more strategically important area in the world than in the middle east."
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