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T h e -' K i n g ’ s B u s i n e s s
October 1932
were stolen from the people of my color and from the peo ple of the East.” Coming events cast their shadows before! On my return trip, I met certain engineers who had been in Japan for some time. I told them what the Japanese had said, that this country was going to consolidate the East, aqd win the confidence of the Mongolian race and of India and of other eastern countries. “ Is there anything to it?” I asked them. “ We have been in Japan for seven years,” they replied, “ and that plan is in the minds o f the people of Japan today. The seeds of discontent and resentment that have been sown in their midst are taking root and beginning to sprout.” T he C oming C onflict ' Now, let us return to the picture of what will take place when the,nations of the earth come together in the end time. We have.seen how the Antichrist will rule over the W est; how the King of the South will “ push at him” ; how the “ king of the north will come against him like a whirl-, wind” ; and how the uprising of the nations in the East “ shall trouble him.” Thus the last great conflict that is often spoken about will be between the North, South, East, and West. Heaven will take part in the struggle. The eleventh chapter of Daniel tells us that the Antichrist “ shall divide the land for gain” ; and then “ the king of the
O f course, in the church of Jesus Christ, there is neither Jew nor Gentile; there is neither bond nor free; there is no color line. Any man who loves the Lord Jesus Christ is my brother in Christ and part of. the same Body to which I belong. Therefore, I am not talking about Christians in Japan, or China, or any part of the earth, but I am dealing with nations as nations. R ising P ower in the E ast The world is populated by approximately two billion people, and two-thirds of that number belong to the col ored races. The Asiatic races—the races of the eastern part of the world—--are growing and out-numbering those o f the West. There is a reason for this. In times of famine in the East, the- West has always sprung to the rescue, and rightly so. I f it had not been for the aid of the United States extended to China, it is estimated that twenty-five million people would have died. So the yellow races, the brown races, are increasing in numbers because of the shel ter and aid the West is giving them. There is also another reason for the increase, and it touches a delicate subject. While the East knows nothing about birth-control, the West is practicing what is known as race-suicide. Go through China or Japan or any o f those eastern nations; and you find there families of seven or eight children. Whether the father has a job or not, he has a family, a big family. If the West is going to compete with the East, as far as population is concerned, there will have to be born in every home in the .western nations five or six children in order to keep pace with the East. B iding H er T ime ' I f you journey through the East today, you will find pervading the air a sort o f expectancy, a sense of waiting. The East is biding her time, awaiting the hour when she shall be able to assert her rights, bring honor to her peo ples, and regain the lands of which she thinks she has been defrauded by the western peoples of the earth. A few years ago, I was traveling to Australia. On board ship I met a Japanese. Almost every Japanese one meets is a friendly sort of person, affable, bland, smiling; but this man was not. He was taciturn, unfriendly. We got into conversation one day. When he asked me where I was going, I told him I was on my way to Australia. He asked if I were an Australian, to which I replied that I was. “ Australia used tp belong to the colored people, did it not?” he asked next. “ Yes,” I answered. “Will you kindly tell me how your people got posses sion o f it?” And he went on to answer himself. “Why,” he said, “ you got it through murder, bloodshed, and graft. Early settlers went over and murdered and plundered and stole, acquiring for themselves vast areas of land. And what are your immigration laws nbw?” There was justice in that question. I could not help but admit it. We have a slogan in Australia. It is this: “ Aus tralia for the white man.” No dark-skinned race is allowed to go into that land and settle down to live unless high standards have been reached. There is tragedy in that situation. Down through the middle o f Australia runs a strip of land that will produce anything and everything that China and parts of India produce. The colored man cannot go in there to work it, because the immigration laws bar him from entering. The white man cannot work it, be cause no white man could stand the climate which prevails in that section. Therefore, the land lies there, going to waste, instead o f being utilized. “ The East,” the Japanese went on, “ can afford to wait. The day will come when we can consolidate the East, and we will challenge any nation to shut us out from lands that
Photo by Adelbert Bartlett B e d o u in H o r s e m a n b e sid e t h e D e a d S e a — t h e r ic h e s t sp o t o n THE FACE OF THE EARTH, FOR WHOSE POSSESSION MANY NATIONS WILL SCHEME AND STRIVE. south shall push at him.” When he moves out to meet the King of the South, the King of the North will sweep down upon him; and as he is preparing to strike at him, “ tidings out of the east . . . trouble him.” The army of the Two Hundred Million will be on the march! Is I t P ossible ? Some one might ask skeptically, “ Do you think the East could get together an army of 200,000,000?” In China, there are 450 million people; in the Mongolian countries, no one knows how many. And if those peoples ever get under the domination of the Japanese, things can be done, and done quickly. Fifty years ago, Peary went into Japan to bring about trade relations with America. At that time, the Japanese did not have a railroad, or a telegraph, or ma chinery of any kind; Fifty years ago! During the period since that time, Japan has taken on Western civilization, has built -up an army, and years ago met the Russian hordes and conquered them, sending their vessels to the bottom of the sea. [Continued on page 436]
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