The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
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Seven Day Adventist Preacher
Talks of Balkan War.
Sees FuIfilIment of Scriptural
Prophecy in Defeat of Turks.

| That the war in Turkey is direct full
| fllment of a Biblical prophecy and
/ presages the end of the world is the
| opinion of the 100000 Seventh Day
Adventists in America: they believe the
; expulsion of the Turk fultllS the
prediction made by Daniel, who fore
/ tells the, extinction of the Ottoman
empire. The AdventiStS further be-
| lieve that when the prophecy is 1uI-
filed "a time of trouble such as never
was will be ushe-ed in, and the close
of all human history will be here
In discussing the reasons for this
belief, and the facts that led up TO II,
Elder W. z. Kennedy, pastor OF the
Seventh Day Adventist church of To-
peka. says in part:
Just now the eyes of all the world
are focused upon the great struggle
that is going on between the Balkan
troops and Turkey. For several dec
AIDES Turkey has been called the
Sick Man of the East and ere this
her possessions in Europe would have
been wrested from her if the powers
could have agreed concerning the re-
mains of this Sick Man
ITO 100, 900 Seventh Day Adventists
there is of special interest They see
in it a step toward the fulf1llment of
prophecy. For nearly a half century
they have looked upon the driving out
of the Turk, and the drying up of the
Ottoman empire, as a direct fulfill
ment of the prophecies. and one of the
last events in the drama of the world.
Turkey occupies a prominent place
with other nations in the prophecies
of the Scriptures Its rise and tri-
urnphs are clearly foretold in the
ninth chapter of Revelation Also in
the great chain of prophecy recorded
in the eleventh chapter of Daniel
which gives an outline of its history,
Turkey hold an important place under
the symbol The King of the North.
After many years of war, revolutions
and changes, Turkey came into pos
session of nearly all that territory
originally occupied by The King of
the North and thus itself became
King of the North BY the king
ritory lying north of Palestine, for
Palestine is where this prophetic word
AT one time Turkey had a terri
torial area of 100000 square miles,
and a population of 100000. 1t is
at this time that Turkey comes into
the prophecy of Daniel as the king
of the North The prophecy of
Revelation foreteIls the rise and de-
velopment of the Turkish empire, and
the prophecy of Daniel foretells its
downfall and extinction. But the
prophecy in Revelation speaks of a
time when the Turkish empire would
be dried up
There has been a gradual disinte-
grafton, drying up, Of this power
known in prophecy as the King of
the North In the last century Tur-
key has lost all her possessions in
Africa and Europe, save Consts nti- |
nople. the capital She now has about
one-ha1f of her former possessions in
Europe. The prophet of God foretold |
her decline and fall. The past CEN |
fury has fulfilled much of the |
prophecy.
More than fifty years ago the Sew
enth Day Adventist denomination, on |
the STRENGTH of this prophecy, took the |
position that the Ottoman empire |
would finally be crushed, bIotted out
and would plant its capital between
the seas in the glorious holy noun |
tain or Palestine, as the prophecy of |
Daniel has said. And the events in the |
Far East at the present time seem to |
be a step in this direction, when the |
unspeakable Turk, if he does not lose
his capital at Constantinople, will lose |
almost all the possessions that he has |
in Europe.
'AlI these things. therefore, through |
the telescope of prophecy, make the |
events to the Seventh Day Adventists |
to all the world as we'll, of special in
terest- as the movements of the ma
tons is a fulfillment of that which the /
seer of God so many years ago said |
would take place. Having said. on the /
of the Word of God, more |
than fifty years ago, that the star and |
Crescent would go down, and the /
great Ottoman empire come to its end /
they watch with interest the present |
war being waged.''