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FLOR the Dispatch
The Late Russn- Turk fsh var, anu ''it! a's
R Relations to Prophecy.

81 RELATIONS TO FEOplSEJs : go e.is
Claiming to be neither ssprophet nor
the son3of prophet, nor desiring 10 DC
spoken OF or addressed as sticn, .Dut cla,ln.
ing the right only to read and Try &c, unu u;
stdnd that that has been predieted py Tue
wise ones Of the past, md II, answer 10
your question, g Where Is Banister 9. anu
the one asked by tBritisher, I appear PC
fore you again.
Prophecy points out more 1Iequenty
great events 10 happen IN tue iutu -, tnan
hut Instruments TO bring them about. Soft
is that the late war between the Russians
and Turks, and those that Immediately pre-
coded it between Turkey and her rebeilious
provinces, were only small part OF many
that have occurred during the gast hfty
years, all tending to effect one great event
prophesied-the "drying up OF the Eu-
pirates river" or destruction OF the TURK
ish power.-[Reyelation xvi, III That
we are living under the 'siXth vial OF
Gods wrath ''-lsame chapter and yerse]-
l think cannot be doubted; and that
the effects Of this vial, or one or them,
"drying up the Euphratcs" indicates
the waning OF the Crescent. l think
also cannot be successfully contradicted, for
the reason that in more than one place in
Scripture the river Of a country IS used 10
! designate the government or people lnnaD-
ting the country through which it flows
| [See Isaiah viii, :, g..
That this vial commenced to pour out It's
wrath about 1S2o-'23, think, has been
equally we'll demonstrated, as since tnat
period that Power, then second only 10
China in population and territory, mas Deeh
gradually wasted down to the present,
when il has but q mere shadow or an exist
ence.-[Sec article on Turk, juno, 18TH
am equally sure that existing facts do
not conflict III the least with views express
ed by your correspondent III former artlcles
upon these subjects.
I also think that the international con-
gress talked OF now to settle the differences
existing between the Powers interested IN
the settlement of the Eastern question, ii 1t
meets at all, will not agree, but will leave
the matter unsettled, to be agitated again
whenever it suits France, perhaps, to push
at Prussia; which act will open the way
anew for Russia, and be followed further in
its consequences by declaration of war on
the part of Constantinople, Vienna. and
Rome. which will cause general war in Eu-
rome and result in Russa's taking Constall-
Etinople, Vienna, and by aiding France to
conquer Prussia also, and thus be-
come, as she is destined to be, the
conoueror of Europe. AS to the
q times and seasons that is nice qucs.
tion. "No man knoweth the dag OF hour
But this we know: "That when the sun
goes down and it is red in the west we say
| it will be clear tomorrow" We can dis
Germ the signs OF the weather. but not OF
the times-being more interested in the Tor
mcr. But while we know not the day nor
hour, yet from the very nature OF things,
and the advanced stage OF events predicted,
we can say the time draws near.
When tho late war commenced between
Russia and Turkey many OF the friends OF
your correspondent intercsted.in this ques-
ton said that Russia time had come to take
Coustantnope and break up the Turks
power; but the writer could not see it so,
but said peace would be declared again be-
fore the long-dcSired event would take
place. This view was taken in part because
OF the peace and strength o! those Powers
interested in the settlement Of the question,
who we believed would interfere. But
look out for tie next move! The spider
| then will have gotten them tangled in her
web. and viii! lesurcIy and carefully wind
| them up, and afterward feast on them at hel
| pleasure, until succeeded By the Kings OF
the East, whose way is prepared by the de-
struction Of the Turk."-[Sec Revelations
xvi. 12l But more Of this anon
| With much respect, &c.. CANISTER.
DanuiUe, "a, March IS, 1873.