imagine my surprise when I found that Dr. Sun had
used this monkey story to exalt the Chinese race.
His thought is as follows: “The world’s great
scholars accept and teach evolution as an explana-
tion of the present order of things. Man was once a
monkey. Through endless ages this animal has
evolved to the stage where he always walks up-
right, is educated and civilized, has no tail, and but
little hair on his body. The Chinese have less hair on
their bodies than any other race of people on the
globe, which proves that the Chinese have evolved
up the scale of civilization and evolution higher than
any other people.” Wonderful argument, isn’t it!
Are the white teachers of evolution ready to accept
this logical statement of their hypothesis?
Ponder this conclusion and this question. It
shows to what lengths a sinner will go in self-
exaltation. He would reverse the true order. In-
stead of a man in God’s image, he has made for him-
self a god in man’s image.
Nevertheless, the
amazing changes taking
place in China today are
of supreme interest to the
thoughtful Bible student.
They are not the result of
evolution, but the direct
fulfilment of prophecy.
One of China's daily
papers recently had a
cartoon picturing a
wheelbarrow heside an
aeroplane that had been
flown from Canton to
Peking, on to Mukden
and back to Shanghai.
It was named “The Spirit
of Canton.” Under the
cartoon were the words,
“The evolution of the
old wheelbarrow.” But
this is not evolution. To
be evolution the wheel-
barrow must of itself
evolve into an aeroplane.
How many years would a
Chinese ricksha have to
stand by the roadside
before it would evolve
into an automobile?
All this great advance-
ment in our day is but the fulfillment of a prophecy
given through Daniel nearly twenty-five hundred
years ago: At ‘‘the time of the end, many shall run
to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
Daniel 12:4. The prophet Joel tells us that just
before the coming of the Lord, the so-called heathen
will be awakened from their age-long slumber.
Study Joel 3: 9-16. Those of us who have been in
China twenty years or longer stand amazed at the
rapid development taking place before our eyes.
APRIL. 1929
y Ewing Galloway, N.Y.
The tomb of Confucius, whose sage wis-
dom was for centuries China's guide
These once-called heathen lands are fulfilling
prophecy and rapidly getting ready to take their full
share in the soon-coming, world-wide struggle that
terminates in the ‘‘battle of that great day of God
Almighty” at Armageddon, when the ‘kings
[kingdoms] of the East” will be there. (Revelation 16:
12, 14, 16.)
CRAZE FOR MODERN WAYS
E WILL not stop to mention her army of
over two million men, but pass on to other
items that prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt,
that China has awakened. A regular craze has taken
possession of her to build modern cities along Western
lines. Everywhere buildings are being torn down,
streets widened, motor-bus lines started, water
systems installed and electric light and power plants
erected. Throughout the interior a network of wide
motor roads are being built. Where a year ago it took
two weeks to go in a slow
boat, one can go now in
ten hours by automobile.
All this will hasten the
giving of the last gospel
message to this enormous
country.
Every large city has
its daily newspaper.
Mammoth wireless sta-
tions are planned for,
and loans are to be
secured with which to
build railroads. Unequal
treaties are being dis-
carded and new ones on
an equal basis are being
made. China is deter-
mined to take her place
in the sun.
But to the missionary
the most interesting
change of all is the recent
order for the destruction
of all the idols and
images throughout the
country. Fortune-tellers
are forbidden t.0 practice.
Many of the people,
especially the priests, are
very rebellious at such a
law; but the powers that
be seem fully determined to enforce it. The idol
temples are to be sold for other and more useful
purposes. The section where we live has been given
two months in which to complete the task. In a
district where I was yesterday the most famous
idol in the city seat, through its attendant priest,
this word to the people, “This world is getting
‘wicked-to-death.” I cannot stay longer on this
planet. I can do you no more good. [ am going
back to heaven.” Devotees of (Continued on page 32)
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