Washington telegraph., 1854-06-21
,r Cummings on the Struggle in the East

The special prediction under the Sixth Flal is
ho driving up of the river Euphrates; that Is
corrosive evaporation of Mohometanlsm. begin
P;U99 in 1920. and expected by every student of
.n9becv to end in very short time indeed. 1t
+ YOU will observe, to die out; 1t IS not to be
tr1ck down. 1t is the evaporation OF stream
st the citadel at blow But while this pow
Uastes and withers. it does not follow that the
p,ssian Eagle is to have the Mosque OF st. Sophia
~ his evrIe The Turks may not cease to be
Lon p thev cease to be Mahometans. They NAV
t.aona Christians The 100000 of Eastern
pCLr;s4ans that are under the Crescent and sub
n+ to all its insults its oppression, and its tyran-
Nv NAV rise up glorious nation-a mighty dy-
sstv-a nobler obstruction TO Russian ambition
than the decrept and dying Turkish empire.
'bicb Western nations vainly try to keep up
Turkey. lust at the period p, edicted in prophesy
tar.n TO die out, as we have already seen The
D7Iance of this is recent testimony respecting
Lor I,amartine, in one OF those sagacious aphor-
ms bv which his eloquence is distinguished saws
nTnrtev dies for want of Turksn This gradual
locav Of the Turkish Empire identifies the period
n which we are now with what is called in the
h,,caIvpse the Sixth Vial. Mr. Habershon. in
~ excellent work upon the subject calculated in
,G40 that the Turkish Empire would cease to ex-
ist soon alter 1919 lie was not very far wrong
Its end is at hand.
Every day | expect to hear of its stream dried
IN of the Crescent wanting and of Turkey as
nation that was, not nation mighty, and longer
able to maintain itself Plague. famine pesti-
lence, prohigacy, are fast drying up her empire
her exchequer is now all but bankrupt her mo-
mentary success against Russia is surer prog
nostic o. her destruction. Britain ard France,
like cIopds, may spread over the Euphrates, and
fry to prevent the evaporation of its waters; but
ali in vain The ruthless Gar has his stern mis-
son The echoes of victory by the fleets IF the
ambitious Autocrat, and the cruel destruction of
tie Turkish. are now resounding through Europe
This gradual decay of the Crescent, after the pc
Rod predicted under the Sixth Vial, which COM
menced IN 1920, when the great river Euphrates
began to be dried up. is assuredly taking place
Its final destruction may be looked for every day,
as il has been since 1880; and now Russia, like
gigantic vulture poised in mid out
stretched wings waits for the moment to descend
and DESTROY. Peace or war equally eXhausts
Turkey. Help her land it is duty to aid the
oppressed) and you NAV soften her fall, but you
will not avert her decay. The time Tor blotting
ont Turkey from the map is at our door. The
sure word of prophecy" is stronger than the COM
bined fleets of England and France We watch
at this moment for the issue; and confess, while
| dread and deprecate the cruel ascendancy of the
Russians. long to see the expiring thrones of an
empire that has long oppressed the free and
crushed the good; to hear the last boom of Ma
hometan cannon; and TO see the widespread lands
around Constantinople. so beautiful and fertile.
emerge from the deluse of Mahometan superst-
ton and not Russia, but Christianity ascendant
as the result, and thereby the way prepared for
the march of the Kings of the East to their be-
loved Palestine. the land of their fathers-ther
destiny and their rest.