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"NonrH-ChiNA Dany News"
On Monday, April 4, 1938.
Commencing at 10 a.m. continuing 2.30 p.m.
Six Referring to your interesting and well written leading article on tthe Seven Devils" in your mornings issue di to-day, how Mr. Hoover, ionner President of the United States has painted a ghastly picture of his impressions formed during his recent tour of Europe, which however is only too true. Your clear summing up of the hideous Sixth Devil "Fear—nations of each other, governments of their people, people of their governments, and everywhere a vague fear of war...which is the root.of much of the world's present malaise"—Your. comment "Napoleon was a dictator: he remained in power just so long as he was able to present the french people with success, and when he tailed his system of government was destroyed. It can safely be said of the existing dictatorships that they have to maintain an unchanging string of successes if they are to keep their hold upon the people under them, and it is the fear that they may not be able to do that which may eventually lead them to desperate courses. History is replete with such coses, and it is the increase of internal fear which is likely to contribute most towards the growing anxieties of the nations regarding international developments. The steady increase of brutality and terrorism are directly attributable to ihe domestic uncertainty, externally, itis reflected by the huge arms race jr. which all the nations of the world are indulging."
Yours and Mr, Hoover's description of the world's present awful condition, is evidently one of the signs of the "Great Apostasy" foreboding the End of things and the Second Coming of Christ, preceded by the appearance of Antichrist, the Man of Sin, whose devils and evil spirits will Cause many to fall even before his 3% years of reign of terrible perseculions of godly people. In this way may be understood the Defection at-the End of the world when nations as political bodies will renounce Christianity, when very many individuals will throw oft their faith and live free of the fear and law of God, of injustice and of indifference in religious matters.
Our Saviour says, when speaking of the approaching End. "You shall hear of wars and rumours of wars... Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be pestilences, and famines and earthquakes in places, Now all these are beginning of sorrows (Matt, xxiv.
It may then be of interest to you and some of your readers who are wondering why the world is now in such a chaos, I will reproduce Here a cutting which I culled many years ago, while in New York from ihe daily newspaper "New York American" Sunday paper of May 31, 1925.
End of the World Set for Year 2000 has been found. at Caylonia, "in ancient hermitage of a Capuchin friar Who died a century" ago, The document was deciphered with great dimeulty.. It was written by jous hermit "of ihe ancient convent Capuchins "founded in 1982, wi died in 1768, and contains a prophecy for the. period from 1163 to the year 2000. (By the way Mr. Editor, St Vincent Ferrer about two centuries ago Was known and styled as the Apostle of the End of the World).
he strange document. foretells jor the year 1702 the outbreak of revolu-ton "in France and the invention of a "new machine" under which the king "and queen would perish.
Revolution. and the change of dynasty in France were foretold for 890," terrible cataclysms and. floods for 1841 and disturbances in the kingdom of Naples of 1848. Peoples Wil rebel against their rulers and Wil lose. their ey says. (Hence and their present The Worst of the 1918 Models to humanity as fear; its name is Contempt.
In certain countries, their people are taught to sing not only "Right or wrong my country," but also "My country above all" or "My nation superior." Other people are consequently assumed and condemned inferior in civilization, in culture, in mind, in physique, in war-fare, and what not; they have, it is taught to believe, no right to their own land, home property, government—not to mention way of living and thinking; they ought to give up what they possess; they must surrender their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Children are led or misled to say: "We despise them. We shall conquer them and take over or destroy what they own." Indeed it is detestable to hear what the militaristic nationalists speak against their good neighbours or to read the books they themselves or their agents write "for home consumption." So the savage psychology is instilled and there can be no thought of mutual aid, ce-existence, international goodwill—no respect to law and order, nor sympathy toward mankind outside one's own country or tribe.
Contempt breeds hatred no less than fear. Both fear and contempt are the twin factors of war now as they have been in the past; but now propaganda on behalf of the twins is worse than ever. Against this background Hoover at s to paint the present world situation with as little shadow as possible so as not io give rise any unusual alarm; but there is a danger of misleading in underestimating the reality. We must not be too nervous, of course; and yet, methinks, we must be able and willing and ready to deal with the situation as it is and as it can be—rather worse, not better.
U, L.
Shanghai, Apr. 2.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.