1941-01-25 — Page 19

Saturday,

.HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

January 25,

1941.

HE

IT is always a very

strange thing to see the way stories that

IS DOOMED!

The Bible,

start as somebody's idea, Some

flash around the coun-

Assert,

try in wartime until they Contains

are accepted as a fact.

Some of these stories the

begin as a mere rumour; others in an argument.

But all of them sprent Prophecy

so rapidly that before

you know where you are, every other person you meet has heard them. And many believe them without hesitation.

Like the story in the

but these shall excape ont of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the chikiren of Ammon.

"He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries; and the land of Egypt shall not escape."

Well, one would have to be a very bold man in this war to

last war of the Russians suggest that Egypt will entirely who were supposed to escape from becoming the scene

of conflict as a result of Hitler's

have been seen march- wickedness.

ing across Scotland with

snow on their boots.

The latest story that is

But the prophecy now reaches

its most interesting stnge.

new well and truly in cir- By John

culation concerns the Bible.

There are not scores but hundreds of people who will

Daniel

Noble

".

I

tell you quite positively that continue my quotation from the the Holy Scriptures foretell same point in the Book of the death of Adolf Hitler- and the end of his reign of terror.

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All this was told to Daniel by an angel, and at that point he looked around him and saw two

men.

One of them asked the other: "How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?"

Daniel was puzzled by the re- ply, and so he called upon God himself, saying: "O my Lord,

until the last forty-five days, by will Britain's cause triumph, but then that it will do so with overwhelming success.

and

One theory is that it means "But he shall have power

the war will last for three years over the treasures of gold and what shall be the end of these and eight months, and that, not of silver, and over all the pre- things?” cious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians Daniel with great care

The answer is recorded shall be at his steps. You will find this "prophecy"

in Chapters 11 and 12 of Assuming that Hitler and exactitude. He writes: the Book of Daniel, which tells Mussolihi can be counted as one of the conflicts that were to man in this prophecy, it is a fact come between the kings of the south and the north.

that at this day, iwo of those races are the conquered peoples of this all-conquering We rend of the endless strug- "king of the north." But at this gles between the rival mon- point his fortune changes:-- archs, with the eventual triumph of the king of the north. Then of the unhap- piness and ungodliness of the people, until we come to verše forty in the eleventh chapter. Here the narrative has a singu- larly apt bearing upon current events. It reads:-

"And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him and the king of the north shall come -against-him-liknawhirl-

tidings out of the cast and out of the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

"And he shall plant the ta- hernacles of his palace be- tween the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him."

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wind, with chariots and with CHAPTER twelve now takes

horsemen, and with Many

up the prophecy-in a most

ships; and he shall enter into convincing way. It records

the countries and shall over- flow and pass over.”

One might be excused for thinking that that was a fair picture of the strident march of Hitler across Europe. But let us read on

"He" shall enter also into the glorious land and many countries shall be overthrown:

A

Here again, any intelligent "And he said, Go thy way, person would agree that this Daniel: for the words are might well be the duration of closed up and sealed till the this war, although some of us time of the end.

might wonder how we are finally to accomplish victory in such a . "Many shall be purified, short space of time. and made white, and tried:

I have also discussed the but the wicked shall do wie- possibility with several eminent kedly; and none of the wicked churchpeople and Biblical stu- shall understand; but the wise dents.

shall understand.

Most of them discredited the They suggestion. "And for the time that the prophecy daily sacrifice shall be taken were fairly convinced that the narrative refers to the invasion abomination away and the

and tyranny. of the Romans that maketh desolate set up under Augustus Caesar. there shall be a thousand two

Yet many hundreds of people hundred and ninety days;

see in Daniel's vision an abso- lute analogy to all that has hap- "Blessed is he that waiteth, pened in our time, and they -and-cometh-to-the thousand. Tegard-it-as-a-prophecy-of-the-

three hundred and five and end of Nazi rute. thirty days,"

Let us at any rate agree that it is a most remarkable coinci- dence.

"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the PHAT, they tell me, is the pro- children of thy people; and phecy of Daniel foretelling)

there shall be a time of trou- the doom of Hitler and the ble, such as never was since liberation of the masses he has there was a nation even to enslaved. that same time: and at that

I am not clear as to the ex-

time thy people' shall be de- planation we are supposed toị livered, every one that shall accept of the times that are be found written in the book." given in the last two verses,

The New Aesop-

A TIRED MULE

TIRED Mule lay ex-

hausted in the Mediter- ranean sunshine. He was not only tired but he was hungry, and he had lost all joy in life.

One day he was visited by the Buzzard, that same Buz- zard who was determined to spread his wings over, the whole world.

you

wake

"Why don't up?" said the Buzzard.

"Now is your chance to kick the Lion, for he is beset by

both the Jackal and my-

self."

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*

The Mule shook his ears.

"I have done an awful lot of kicking in my life," he said.

very painful."

DON'T

DISTURB

ambition. For example, you are short of carrots. But i know where there are, lands full of carrots which you could eat all day and no one would stop you."

The Mule raised himself Then he on his forelegs. asked the Buzzard where these lands were.

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"They lie just beyond that. huge Roch," he said. "For centuries that Rock has stood between you and your beloved carrots. Now all you have to do is to go and kick the Rock down and you will never need to go hun- gry again."

The Mule lowered himself by his forelegs and once

TELEGRAPH

QUIZ

1. In which country is an- cient Bagdad?

2. What is the difference bo- tween an emigrant and an im- migrant?

3. How many Prime Minis- ters did Britain have during the last war? Who were they?

4. "Nemesia is (a) loss of memory (b) norvous complaint (c) spécies of popular flower.

5. Ann Sheridan, the film actross, is called the "Oomph" Girl. Who was known as the "I" Girl?

6. The three Soong sisters of China are the wives of--?

7.

Which title ranks between Earl and Baron?

B. The Mule yawned. "That more lay prostrate upon the

"Even if my legs agreed

"But somehow my legs don't get on very well with each isso," he said, "and my ground. other. The Left is always Right leg is very grateful. striking the Right, and it is But you see if you are with each other," he said, Mule lika me you have to "I couldn't kick the Rock "Yes," said the Buzzard, have both legs working to down. So please go away "but your Right leg scored a gether or give up kicking," splendid victory Over the Loft because of the help that the Jackal and I gave to it."

and let me rest, for there is a saying in my country that The Buzzard snorted with he who sleeps eats. Moral: anger. "You are lazy," he A wire mule knows when said, "and totally lacking in not to be a donkey.

A Leodensian in a {(a)) ̧ native of Leeds (b) man born' In' the Dodecanese Islands (c) pro- historic monster.

9. What English princo was offered the throng of Grocco, and when?

onco

10. What zulor has just abolished the compulsory silk hat for visitors?

Answers on Pago 14.

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