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Show I Who Knows? Noting that Justice Harlem believes that sometime some-time there is going to be a race war between the yellow and brown men of Asia and the pale races of Europe, our evening contemporary says: "We believe this prediction will come true. The Scriptures seem to predict as an epoch-making epoch-making occurrence of the last days an invasion of pagan nations from Asia, which will Anally be defeated in one of tlve plains of Palestine after sanguinary battles." IWill not the News kindly give a bill of particulars par-ticulars covering that seeming prophecy? It is no new business for the hordes of Asia to btream low upon Europe, and many people believe another an-other such invasion is not a great way off. The Kaiser of Germany is of that belief, and hence always al-ways preaches peace to the nations of Europe that they may be ready to up I to against the common com-mon peril. It was Just by a scratch that the navies at Lepanto rolled back the Saracens. Tnoy were not Mongolians, but they were an Asiatic liord; so were the Huns; so wore the Tartars. The trouble first is, When are "the last days" to e? Then, second, if before the last days the heathen are all to be converted, whore are the pagans coming from? Then this old planet has been rolling for a long time. All life has been 'wept away upon its surface more than once, but it 1ms rolled qn and on. Nations have grown up upon its breast; they have nourished thousands of years and slowly crumbled back to dust, but where is it written that any great cataclysm will In; due soon? Very likely when China takes on a like warlike form to that of Japan; when her ? people shall have become accomplished in arts and arms, she with- Japan may start upon the conquest con-quest of the western world. The Moslem even may anticipate that march. If the science of navigating the air sometime, as now seems probable, prob-able, becomes perfected, maybe the tremendous mountains of .Central Asia may be no obstacle to their advance; that they will be veritable human locusts coming and destroying every green thing; but it will be safer to make calculations on a political po-litical and commercial and military basis rather than try to interpret obscure prophecies, because it is hard work to pin prophecies down to dates and facts. Again, devout men who study the Scriptures most think they see already dawning that reign of peace that is to cause the nations to learn war no more, and they do not like to read predictions of a possible worldwide race Avar. All such predictions, pre-dictions, whether founded on supposed piophecies, or superstition, or the hobby of men who love to put this and that together and work out hypothetical hypothet-ical problems, are at best but speculations. Some of us still remember when a great company of people wanted to give away their homos, and made robes which they called "ascension robes," and got all ready one February day, the prophecy being proved by exact mathematics to be translated. trans-lated. The day came, with it a' tremendous snowstorm, and as the neighbors turned out to break roads, one irreverent bad man remarked that "this looks a blankety blank like the world burning up." The trouble about all such things is: "Who knows?" |