Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1841-02-16
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
wANiNG OF rIE TURKISH. EMPIRE.


The prssea, position OF the Turkish Empire is one Of
great interest apart from the more stirring questions Of
peace ot war e.rh which tits associated Il presents
,a :aa world Sic spectacle ol mighty fabric covered
v.,tto az, u, boar 81 lrn1mcr1to ages vet ,ouern
90 ifs ruin Tic Ottoman empire ba, filed "a mos, inn
aas;au, place a tie pages Of God. righteous rIoyi.
dcacc m ,ho government, Of the world It has beon
employed to uampc IN he dus, the mighty empire If
Eastern Rome, and to execute JUS, vengeance those
fallen churches which, like the ancient Jews, made
void the commandments ofGod by their traditions and
the reward Of their sposiacy, have shared in the
am,ics which fell upon Israel, The guilt Of each was
the same in substance, although differing in form. The
Jews having by their TRADITIONS blinded their eyes to
tho truth Of Scripture could comprehend the Lam
guagc of their prophets, and rejected the Messiah, be-
cause they in him no beauty" TO win their adm
ration. The Eastern Churches, by their traditions
also made void the commandments Of God, and
ruped the faith in Jesus till they buried it beneath the
rubbish Of monkey pennance, image-worship, and
pompous ceremonies Both, in effect, substituted their
notions of religion for the truths OF Scripture and
both to this hour suffering under the desolang and
oppressive power of the false prophet.
But the word Of prophecy points TO the day star
which shall yet arise the mountains OF Judea and
gid once the eastern shores of the Great Sea"
Jerusalem is not forever TO be trodden down Of the
Gen,iles is the Moslem crescent forever to sup
plant the fallen banner Of the 1t is not for to
know the times and the seasons but the rapid march Of
must long ago have convinced the most ncred-
uious that the power Of the Turk is waning to exnc-
.on, and that the Fast is at the time presenting
symptoms Of a moral renovation. Twelve hundred and
ilyf,c years have passed away since the rise of that
power by which the disfgurcd form OF Christianity
was crushed through Asia and European Turkey. Next
to tina, master piece of Satanic power which was con-
emporaneously exhibited in the establishment OF Papa
cy IN the West, We can hardly fail reckon the esab
l'hmeut Of INSTRUMENTATION in the East The light Of
Christianity had given the death wound 10 Paganism in
those countries Where had fully penetrated, and Ma
homet undertook 10 erect spiritual domination, in
which some of the great kWths OF Christianity were
employed 10 give dignity toa system from which lis
true spin, was to be wholly excluded. The Ottoman
Empire in reality magnificent military thcocracy,
and ibc elements of it, endurance fauacism and
conquest, The Koran ia one hand and the sword in
The other were the f, omblems both of tho Saracenc
aud Turkish power 1t has been duly said by la Mar
4 tine "a nation like HE Turks, which would neither
cultivate the land trade govern itselG doomed
go sink down upon itself rom the day it should have no
nations TO su and TO compel to labor for j, by
expressing 'hom Since the close of the seventeenth
century her power has been wasting, and since 100
q lcE decline has become more visible. "The relative
force, Of Europe had increased those Of Turkey had
diminished She bad no longer the same force Of per
y secunon The Turkish population had dwudlad to
nothing in proportion to the immense territories -hc
had ,o govern Parasite grassc, every where sttied
usman's stock. the Christians predomina,ed over the
ouomans even 90 the Empire The day They counted
their numbers was have been the last Of Constant
i nope-,hat day has every where come,-LoHdon Re
cord