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Excerpt from The Decisive Hour: Is It Lost?
Japan, which is taking part in the war as one of the Great Powers, has gained its position with such astonishing rapidity that its present Prime Minister has witnessed the transformation from the beginning, and played a leading part in bringing it about. Three years ago the establish ment of a Republic in China revealed to the world what revolutionary forces were seething in that ancient and populous nation. There are many proofs that in both Japan and China leading men are aware that the roots of national greatness lie not in material progress but in the character of the people, and that they are deeply concerned to find a spiritual basis for the new national life. What faith and what ideals will mould the thought and engage the affections of the peoples of the Far East The new order that is steadily and surely taking shape must rest on some body of beliefs. Can the traditional religions provide the needful foundation If they prove insufficient, shall we witness the growth of powerful civil izations based on a hard and soulless materialism? Or shall the east know in its growth, as the west has known, the Vitalizing, renewing, sanctifying in?uence of Christ? The march of history has seldom given rise to questions of greater moment for the human race.
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