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Show The New Dawn In Asia WE mentioned last week that the whistle of the locomotive was soon to sound in the streets and to shriek over the ruins of Jerusalem. Jeru-salem. It seems that the road is to penetrate deep into what have been so long the fastnesses of central Asia. And now news comes that Russia and England have agreed upon the building' of a road from the shores of the Caspian sea to pass through Persia and Baluchistan to a connection with the British roads in India. Russia will build southeast through Persia; Great Britain northwest north-west through Beluchistan to a connection with the Russian road. Business men will speculate over the changes which this road will bring. The time between London and Bombay will be reduced re-duced by several days, and the whole distance will be through a thickly populated region. The building of the road will be but preliminary to the putting of the water systems In that mighty area under control, to the cultivation of tens of millions of acres now lying desolate the rehabilitation rehabili-tation of a long lost land. The projectors of those changes are reasoning reas-oning only from a business basis; if by their work they will be causing long-waiting prophecies to be fulfilled, that does not concern them. But in many a land the work, when it begins to take form so that the average man will comprehend what is intended, and what, without intent, will be wrought by it; will turn to the old prophecies and re-read them; for that work will bring into direct contact the Jew, the Mohammedan, Christians of all creeds and beliefs, and there, in that land where mortals first learned to pray and to question what destiny was intended for the races of men, what will come to deepen or weaken men's faith? Will the transformation subdue all men enough to make them look with tolerance upon the beliefs of each other? If that could come about, then they would soon get together, to-gether, and the peace that was proclaimed under the glory of Bethlehem, with the guiding star stopping and waiting over the manger, would at last take up its reign. And men would begin to repeat again: "Thus saith the Lord, keep ye judgment and do righteousness, for my salvation is near to come, and. my right- mgjjSjjjjmSS . H eousness to be revealed, for my house shall M be called a house of prayer for all peoples." ' "For thus saith the high and lofty one that M inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: 'I dwell M in the high and holy place, with him also that is f of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the mW contrite ones. For I will not contend forever, ; neither will I be always wroth.' ifl "'Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. And nations i shall come to thy light, and kings to tne Drignt- ' ness of thy riBing.' " M When this contemplated work shall reach full H progress many people will seek those lands; H there will be men after lands and water rights, M there will be more keen traders; there will be M prospectors looking after old mines; every form 9 of industry will be represented, for there will bo 9 old lands to restore, roads and bridges and cities 9 to be built; a thousand industries to be inaugur- ated. But it seems to us that the very greatest 9 fascination ought to be to young priests of all de- 9 nominations, for surely if signs count for aught 9 the restoration of that land so long ago promised 9 is close at hand, and it is more than probable that 9 as in that land men first began to call upon God, 9 there the universal , church, to which all creeds 9 can subscribe, will be established. 9 |