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podasa, a Buddhist residing in Madras, India, claims to be secretly receiving information from realms beyond o f the coming o f the great “ Leader.” A high priest by the name o f Enmaggi Sayadaw informs us that Budhisatta Maitreya left the Tusita Heaven and was on earth in the body of a small boy in 1914, and that he will soon reveal himself to men. In Tibet, Teshu Lama has ordered the erection of an immense image, eighty feet in height, made o f sheets of copper and coated over with gold, to greet the coming o f Lord Buddha Maitreya. The Javanese, a mystic cult in India, await the arrival of Sri Feinfing Lota, or “ Holy White Lotus.” In Persia, the Zamyad Yast tell us that the gods are soon coming to earth in the form o f one “ Great Being” who will heal and restore the world to righteousness. The Moslem priests speak o f the coming o f another great prophet o f God, Imam Mahdi, for whom, Professor Pavri informs us, a tomb has already been prepared beside the body o f Mohammed, where he may rest when he shall die. The Zoroastrians daily listen for the fall of the footsteps of Sashiyant. Even the Red Indians o f South America are in constant expectation o f the arrival o f their own great leader, Quetzel Coatl. Some of the great “ leaders” seem to have already arrived. Russia has her Lenin— her “ leader” still, even if in mummified form. Italy has her “ infallible” Mussolini; for according to the eighth o f “ The Ten Commandments” posted up in all the barracks o f Italy— " Mussolini is always right.” Not to be outdone, Germany now presents a Ger man messiah, Hitler, “ der Fuehrer” ( “ the Leader” ), who believes himself to be the chosen o f God to establish the glory o f “ the Fatherland.” The State is a divine entity, a mystical Reich, which all true Germans should worship, and for it should die. But far more significant than all the foregoing is the fact that, in both Jewish and Christian circles the world around, the devout are standing on tiptoe with expectancy! Rev. Joseph S. Flacks, a converted Jewish missionary, speaking sometime ago in Los Angeles, told how he had visited in the home o f an orthodox cousin, and found the family studying the Bible— New Testament as well as the Old. He asked, “ How did you come to study the Bible with the New Testament?” They replied: “ Cousin, we are living in momentous days. Father and the synagogue people say it is the Mes siah’s time. Christians claim that their Jesus is soon to come back again. We cannot afford to remain ignorant on these subjects.” Travelers from Palestine continually testify as to the spirit o f expectancy in the hearts o f orthodox Jews who have returned there, hoping to greet the Messiah when He shall arrive. Like some misguided Christians, some of these Jews are not averse to fixing dates for His return. For instance, a writer, Mr. Herman, in the Jewish Chronicle
Drifting Over Uncharted Seas jf^ iC K up your newspaper, and by actual measurement, you will discover that it gives to the love twitters of Holly wood twice the space that it gives to the fact that the world is on fire and man’s civilization totters toward complete collapse. Only minds utterly unthinking and set on folly are unaware that mankind is on the verge o f the most momentous events the human race has yet had to face. Save for a faithful few who have entered into the counsel o f the Most High, no man knows just what impending events are going to mean to himself or to any one else. Men know only that all their ships—political, financial, social, moral, and religious— are drifting over uncharted seas into some unknown. The smoke has scarcely cleared away from battlefields intended by the victors to “make the world safe for democracy.” Yet already, to use the words o f the N ew York Evening P o s t : As we daily read the headlines coming out of Wash ington, we feel as if we were all being hurled from the familiar old path o f democracy into spiral after spiral upward to the blue empyrean of the unknown. The mighty plans being flung out minute by minute from the White House overwhelm the intelligence. They are beyond assim ilation by any one mind. Will they help us ? Or will they wreck us? Who knows? A World Looking for a Saviour Just before our Lord’s return, according to His own testimony, the world o f men, and especially the Jew, will be looking and calling for a saviour. The seekers will say, “ Lo, here is Christ, or there,” One shall cry, “ Behold, he is in the desert” ; another, “ Behold, he is in the secret chambers!” And this intense desire for, and need of, a world saviour will prove to be fertile soil for “ false Christs and false prophets” (c f. Matt. 24:23-26). All o f this will prepare the way for the arch-deceiver— the Antichrist. But his reign will be short. The trumpet judgments will quickly pass, and the despairing cry of the world will be answered in mercy by the coming o f One who is a Saviour indeed. The present world-cry for the coming o f some one to save, by solving problems which have grown to be too great for men, is one o f the most significant signs o f the times. Extraordinarily significant it is that the occult world is continually giving warning that the coming o f a great “ World Leader” is at hand. Among the Theosophists, the well-known book, The Coming World Teacher, is based on “ knowledge” obtained by clairvoyance. Hindu seers inform us that the Kali Yuga cycle, which began in 3102 B. C., is very near its end, and that the age is about to draw to its close with the reincarnation o f a “ World Master” who once lived in the remote past. The Buddhist monks prophesy the soon coming o f a supremely enlightened and most holy Buddha. C. Jinara-
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