THE FUTURE FOR CHINA

Edgar Cayce has sometimes been called “The sleeping prophet” because if the name and address of the person in need of advice was given he could see them from afar as in a dream and help with their problem. He never charged a fee for his services and after a nationwide magazine published a story about him thousands of people wrote him with requests for help. He was a photographer to earn a living for his family but worked so many hours a day doing both that he died of exhaustion while still in his sixties.

Rev. June Bro, who writes a column in Venture Inward, was a friend of Edgar Cayce was asked what he was like. “When Edgar Cayce walked into a room he commanded center stage. He had a presence about him – he caught your interest. He was tall and walked with a certain bearing and had a rich baritone voice that reverberated throughout the room when he spoke. When he laughed his full-throated laugh, everybody else laughed along. His son Hugh Lynn told about him speaking to a group of people and made a gesture lifting both his hands high into the air, the people stood up as though they were being called to some noble purpose. When he brought his arms down in the same grand manner, they all sat down again. Every word he uttered was like a precious pearl to be savoured and taken to heart. Some with pen and paper took notes to not miss a single word.”

He was once asked to comment on the future of China. His reply painted a scene of China’s future as a country that has wanted to be left alone and moved with caution through the centuries but would in time do something remarkable and become the “cradle of Christianity.”