Evening star., 1915-07-15
ORIENT IS awake,
SAYSA. c. DANIELS
Seventh-Day Adventist Presi-
dent Describes Far East
Conditions.
BETTER CLASSES IN INDIA
LOYAL TO THE BRITISH
China Is Graduating Teachers to
Train People in Modern
Methods and Ideas.

Returning from tour of the orienta
countries, and also Australia and Ne"
Zealand, which lasted more than
year, Elder A. G. Daniels, president OF
the general or world conference OF
Seventh day Adventists, discussed to-
day. in an interesting way, religious
| social and political conditions in the
far east.
| In telling of the spirit prevailing
among 1ndia's millions relative to the
war in Europe. Elder Daniels declared
that the better classes are united in
supporting the British empire. There
| is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction
existing among the anarchists and nj
hilists. which would stir up internal
strife he continued, but no more SO
than you would find among such classes
in other countries. These anarchists
| and nihilists would make the people
| believe that this war was holy war,
but their agitation among the Moham-
medans was silenced when the head OF
the Mohammed edans there declared in a
public speech that it was not holy
war"
AS to the religious condition among
| the orientals, Elder Daniels said
| Many instances of where men and
women have accepted Christianity con-
vey to me the clearest evidence that
God is in the land, opening the hearts
of the people and impressing them with
| the light of His truth. Three thousand
years of heathenism has left those peo-
| pie in awful darkness and superstition.
| though they are not primarily respon-
sible for it. 1t has been taught to them
| from their infancy. Just as soon as a
| little child can begin to think at all.
| its mind is directed to idols and filled
with superstition.
Saw Children Worship Idols.
Il saw little children just able to
stand have incense sticks put into their
hands, and their mothers shut their
hands up and make them hold the
sticks and pray to the idols.
II believe that God is going to re-
| those heather in these last days. and He
is going to have them as the trophies
of His grace. He is also going to take
them with the redeemed and will
show, through them what He could
have done for every human being if he
had permitted God to do so.
The Lord has been preparing the
world for this time. While we hear a
fairs of this western hemisphere for
the beginning of the Advent message, I
also believe that the hand Of God has
been in India and in China and Korea
ever been in North America. shaping
conditions and preparing the people
for the procla nation of His message
there to save them. No man can travel
through those countries without saying
Not only in the greater religious
| awakening that has taken place do we
see the hand of God, but God has shak-
tracks of thirty-four and forty CEN
turies. They are not where they were
fifty years ago. politically, intellectu-
ally. industrially, socially and religi-
ously. In all those lines there has been
| a tremendous awakening. a tremendous
| change in all that part OF the world In
stead of travelling by the wheelbarrow
or the camel or the bullock cart in
| many parts of all those countries now
| they have splendid railway lines and
splendid steamship transportation.
Excellent Transportation.
Instead of trying to get up that
great river, the Yangtse, in China, for
| 1000 miles by sailing boat and oars
| and paddles. they now have magnif1-
cent steamers leaving Shanghai every
day and landing people in the city of
Hankow. In Hankow you can take a
splendid railway express train and run
| miles farther on to Mukden. and there
can catch an American express train
! down to the southern point of Korea.
| and then cross from Shaminasko to
| Toxic, nearly 1000 miles away.
| We'll. now. another thought. and
| that is that that idea of patriotism and
| ma tionalism goes along with the thought
of power and the navy and the army.
ieyhf ctriI t,ntr
made to build up the army and the
| navy for self-protection. The whole
| thing goes along together to unite and
form strong nations, and japan is lead
! ing the whole great east.
| Il never had any conception of the
| change that has come over the east
ern world Intellectually in the matter
of education and the training of mind
look around myself China in one
night overthrow its old educational
system and put in force a new system
| based on our western scheme. And
now a wonderful change is taking
| place They have normal schools in
| their cities. in-which a thousand teach
| ers in school are being trained to &C
into the schools of the country. They
| need a million teachers in China tc
give their children more practical
system that they have planned out, and
| they are training them just as fast
as they can. thousand at time
| in the city OF Shanghai, and many
| cities the same way.
Great Publishing House.
II don't know that I can give yo,
any better idea Of the marvellous awak
ening intellectually that has taker
place than to give you a few facts con.
nected with the publishing house thai
| exists in Shanghai for the purpose Of
providing text books and appliance.
| for the teachers in the schoolhouse.
to carry out this present system O.
| education.
"It was founded in 1897 1t has
paid-up capital of s1.00O,0OO 1t ha,
| three departments-its factory, IT.
business or supply department and it.
editorial department In the factory i
does printing. binding and manufactur
ing of every kind. The building il
| sixty-fve feet wide and $50 feet long
1t employs in the factory 1,4OO men ano
| women. and of that number 1000 are
men and 400 women. In the busines:
| department there are employed 500 mel
| and women. In the editorial depart
ment there are 125 editors. Of whom
there are graduates from Oxford, Cam
hrjd0e Harvard Yale and others 0f fhs