"The Saturday Evening Post" of August 26th, ult., contains an article, by Edgar Snow, on "The Decline of Western Prestige;" which is a striking confirmation of Bible prophecy regarding the "kings of the east" in chaps. 9 and 16 of the Revelation. I will quote a few extracts:

"A fundamental shift in racial fronts is taking place, an alteration in the status of the earth's families of men. The rise of an Eastern power great and strong and determined enough to challenge the European powers and America marks the end of an era of Western mastery. That is the great, historic significance of the Far Eastern conflict."

"No tears are shed for the white man's lost prestige. And nations in the East struggling toward freedom can readily accept Japan's doctrine of 'Asia for the Asiatic.'"

"Intelligent Englishmen already admit that India is a lost empire; at most, a decade separates it from independence."

"With the fall of these colonial empires, finis may be written to Western imperialism. Perhaps-and this is what secretly troubles the sleep of Europe-the fall may come rapidly now, if Japan gives help to the 'oppressed races.' "

"Even a year ago such an organization as the Asiatic Anti-British League could not have existed in Japan. Today it is encouraged by the military… Big cities in Japan are now plastered with signs, stickers and placards denouncing British 'enslavement of the East!' They call upon the 'four hundred million Chinese and three hundred million Indians to unite with Japan in driving British influence west of the Suez.' "

"As I write this in Peiping, Japanese airplanes are flying over this region, dropping thousands of leaflets in Chinese, with texts developing such titles as these :'Asiatics, awake! Japan's army is the strongest in the world! Japan does not fight China, but Western domination of China and her present rulers! Asiatic comrades, unite! Overthrow white domination!'"

"To one who has in recent weeks seen thousands of Chinese troops, led by Japanese officers, invading North China, it is entirely credible that the Japanese imperialism could be made acceptable over more of China, and from China spread over Asia."

Could one ask for clearer proof that we are living at the end of the present age? Surely Scripture vindicates itself against rampant unbelief! R. B. Eames