Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1854-10-04
DR.. Cummings on the Struggle in the
East,

The great special predlctionunder the Sixth
Vial is the drying up of the river Euphrates;
that is, progressive Evaporation of Mahome-
tanIsm, beginning in 1920, and expected by
every student of prOphesy to end in a very
short time indeed. 1t is, you will observe, TO
die out; it is not to be struck down. 1t is the
evaporation of a stream-not the DESTRUCTION of
citadel at a blow. But while this power
wastes and withers, it does not follow that the
Russian eagle is to have the mosque of S. So
phia for his eyrie. The Turks may not cease
to be Mahometans. They may become Chris
tians. The 100000 of Eestern Christians
that are under the crescent, and subject to all
its insults, its expressions and its tyranny, may
RAISE up glorious natlOn-a mighty dynasty
a nObler obstruction to Russian ambition than
! the decreplt and dying Turkish empire, which
! " estern nations vainly try to keep up. Tur-
key, Just at the period predicted in prophesy,
began to die out as we have already SEEN
: The evidence of this is recent testimony res
pecting her. Iamartlne, is one of those saga-
cious phorsms by which his eloquence is distin-
sushed, says, Turkey die for want of Turks"
THIS gradual decay of the Turkish empire
!, Identifies the period in which are now, with
what is called in the Apocalypse the Sixth
Wal. MIR. Harbershon, in his excellent work
upon the subject, calculated, in 1880, that the
Turkish Empire would cease to exist soon after
! lS49. He was not very far wrong. Its end
is at hand. Every day expect to hear of It's
e stream dried up, of the crescent waning, and
of Turkey as a nation, that was, not a nation
mighty, and longer able to maintain ITSELF
Plague, famine, pestilence, profigacy, are fast
drying up her empire: her exchequer is now all
but bankrupt; mOmentary success against Rus
STA is a surer prognOstc of her destruction.
Britain and France, like clouds, may spread
over the Enphrates, and try to prevent the evap-
Grafton of its waters; but in vain; the ruthless
Gar has his stern mission. The echoes of vie
tory by the fleets of theambitious autocrat and
the cruel destruction of the Turkish, are, now
resounding through Europe. The gradual de-
r cay of the crescent after the period predicted
under the Sixth Vial, which commenced in
# 1920, when the great river Euphrates began
:. to be dried up. is assuredly taken Gplnce Its
- final destruction may be looked for every day,
s. as 1t has been since 1850; and now Russia, like
n a gigantic vulture poised in mid heaven oh out
1t stretched wings waits for. the moment to de-
in scend and destroy. Peace or war equally ex-
haust Turkey. Help her, and it is the duty to
&c aid the oppressed, and soften her tall, but you
er will not avert her decay. The time for bio ne
is out Turkey from the map is at our doors. The
ar sure word of prophesy" is stronger than lie
. combined fleets of England and France. We
- watch at this moment for the issue; and con-
ID fess, while dread and deprecate the cruel as
h tendency of the Russians. long to see the
v. expiring throes of an empire that has long OPP
m pressed the free, and crush the. goods TO hear
the last boon of Mahometan superstition, al
~ not Russia but Christianity ascendent as the
ne result, and thereby the way prepared tor the
ms march of the king of the East to their beloved
Palestine, the land of their fathers. their desti
A., ny, and their rest. -,s.... u, a.s...g !Agav