The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-01-16
The Eastern Question,
~ WIFI, THE TURKISH EMPIRE BIZ

flBW WILL THE II RhlSH fMIlhr
DISPOSED OF?
ro THE EDITOR OF The JOURNAL:
rtsr, is so much feeling now over the |
resent trouble in Turkey, and so many |
t.4,,ent opinions as to its final outcome, |
f. tEoueh it might be of interest to many
# the readers of your paper to know
,Jat Gods word says on this important
..riftt. God word declared what would
-...lut of the Turkish empire over TWEEN
., I.lec hundred years ago, in such plain
t3se that he who reads may under
stand.
tia reader will take the Bible and
-...... the eleventh chapter of the book
Dinie he will find the most re-
.n4,hle historical prophesy known. 1t
is, sireu in che third year of the reign of
.sr- Cyrus and gives the most important
vents "a the rise and fall of nations and
.re uf the events are described SO mi
.-.Il that the most seeptical cannot deny
..... ,..i that those things foretold in this
..tr have come to pass and in the right
,.r God gave us the history of the
...InAl events before they TRANSFERRED,
. Hstorians afterward. so by compar
what God said would be with what
.-tatans say has been, we can see that
may have perfect confidence in what
-.. -4,s concerning the final disposal of
.. lkish empire. Although we find the
.raetic history of the Turk beginning
the 10th verse and continuing
r gh the remainder of the chapter, yet
.. aiiI get a better understanding of
verses if we begin at the first of the
..r.r aud follow it through verse by
.-r comparing the same as briefly as
A.e with history.
49, ind by reading the 10th chapter of
..H that what was recorded in the
NAs given to Daniel by one OF Cod S
ugels as an explanation of Il dream
Daniel had We also find the date
rrophesy. it being the third year
u- ynIs' reign, that mighty man
God named Cyrus and foretold his
a more than one hundred years before
> born. (see lsa 45:l-6: lisa 44:2N).
4,ry interesting to read the history
great man and see how an unseen
. led linn forth conQuering and to
.url In running through the first
fY the eleventh chapter of Daniel, or
,t The +0th verse where the prophetic
-r.I, of the Turk begins. we Will simply
-iIe historian name the characters de
.uel therein. foI space will not allow a
Iccuunt of them,
-.e ufSl verse y NOT PippIeSS' out -
-e 'fkhoWleu4H ieil lildl 'le pi'e 'dih-
=. ''illel ldo Sto'''i ~ 'iil w
''ilus tht Ae"e IN the liiSl year Oh
IN ana thlnN one VIII ohiy nave
ta tlte history OF lh.N Per'ou Oh MS
- =" acknowledge the lact OF lle state
'I verse 20. Ana now VIII snow
.He truth. belolu' lhefe sha'l StaLd
three Kings IN Persia; ana tne
ii slal ne tar richer than they an:
oy his strength through ms riches
-utlI STIR up an against the fealm OF
"r ave stated Iii THIS verse thar three
H--- would succeed cyrus on the PERSIAN
uo and then VelY rlch king. who
.e stir MP all against Grecia, would be
fourth.
LIT historian gives us the names OF
s-. Kings as follows: Cambyses, Smer-
Darius Hyrtaspes ana then Aerxes
rreat, the fourth and very rich king
'. stirred up all against Greece to the
s-.ut that he raised an army of over p
uo fighting men ana marched against
..- 'Mtly. The excitement ran so high,
a E,rXes people were SO stirred up, that
~r as many followed him to see this
..l-itiou as he had soldiers. Thus the
-sru1 verse was wonderfully fulfilled.
& pophesy does not tell how the ex-
N,,,,lJ lint tha hiStnr-