The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-11-17
THE SH|PWRECK
\ OF NAT|0NS5"
angelist Believes Revelations to
Be Prophecy of The Downfall of
ykingdoms.


i Nineteen centuries ago the pro
phet John declared the independence
of the Turkish power would end il
August, 1910. The centuries pass
:, The year comes witnessing the full
fillment in the very month foretold
nineteen hundred years ago. Such {
thing could not have happened, posi-
! lively it could not. 1t is the hand oi
the living God in history"
Such was one of the interesting
statements made by Evangelist LIE
Froom Sunday night, at the Adven-
tist Chapel. His address on 'The
Shipwreck of Nations" was an expo
sition of Revelation VIII and TX
T1is he believes is an inspired his
tory, written in advance,of the down
| fall of nations during the Christian
era, and the coming shipwreck of all
nations in the near future. A part of
the address follows:
"The seven trumpets, or bugles,
are symbols of wars, and the key to
modern history is found in this
prophecy. The events of the Trum-
pets, however, ARE the consequence of
conditions revealed in preceding
chapters. Thus the symbols in the
seals, passing from white to black,
show the course of apostasy in the
church. The effect of this apostasy
was the complete ruin of the Roman
Empire.
Rome became fostering mass of
corruption. The form of godliness
was used as cloak to cover the same
old pagan superstitions, delusions,
vice, and wickedness. There was no
remedy. Destruction must come,
and come it did, by the mighty bar
barian hosts, who fairly blushed at
the shameful corruptions which they
found in the so-called Christian So
ciety of Rome. Like a succession of
mighty tides, they overhowed the
Western Empire of Rome in the time
covered by the first four of the seven
trumpets.
"These peoples, by whom were
wrought the destructive judgments
upon the fallen Rome, are in descent
the great nations of today.
Like the hour-strikings of a
clock, the sounding of the trumpets
herald the coming hosts. The first
trumpet symbolizes the wars waged
| by the renowned Alaric and his vic
torious Goths. Hail, fire, and blood
falling upon the earth is the pro-
|phetic description of the terrific in
|vasion. Rome was pillaged. Desc
|tion and smoking ruins follower
| lt4e-triumphant hosts. Rome was
humbled in the dust.
''The fulfllment of the second
trumpet is found in the congests of
Italy and Africa, by the Vandals, un-
der the terrible Genseric. "A great
mountain burning with fire was cast
into the sea- is the prophetic SYM
boil. His conquests were by sea. In
deed, it was like mighty stone cast
into the waters, causing wave after
wave to beat upon the defenseless
shore. Twice was the Roman fleet
destroyed by fire. How strikingly
history fulfils prophecy.
"The third trumpet was fulfilled
by the Huns, under the leadership of
Attila, called the 'scourge of Cod
The prophetic description is that of
a brilliant meteor flashing through
the sky and falling upon the rivers.
His conquests were conducted along
the Rhine and it's tributary streams.
His career was brilliant, but short.
His light went out like the snuffing
of a candle, and his immense en-
pire went to pieces.
"The fourth trumpet symb olizing
the career of Odoacer. leader of the
Heruli and other tribes, completed
the downfall of Western Rome, put
ting an end to the rule of the Cal
sars. Rome was now broken into
fragments, and the modern nations
of Western Europe were planted.
"The fifth trumpet was fulfilled
by Mohammed and his followers. But
not till 1899 did they have centrai
government. They were divided into
factions, under different leaders.
Then the prophecy declares they
would have king over them. 1t was
even so. Gilman consolidated the
Mohammedan tribes into the Ooto-
man Empire. According to the pro-
phecy, it was to continue $50 years,
which would carry us to 1A49.
| 'In the sixth trumpet the Turkish
sultanies were to be 'losed for 39l
years. To this definite period the
independent reign of the Turkish
Empire was limited. 1t carries us
to August, 1910. The year comes
What happened? Mehemet Ali sub
mits to the dictation of the powers o1
1
Europe. 1t was the surrender o.
Turkish independence. The present
outbreak and the final end of the
Turkish power we must leave unit
next Sunday night, to be taken VI
under the subject, The Downfall o
Turkey, and The End of the World.
1--WE have past six of the trumpets
Our own generation is brought fac
to face with the rapidly fulfillin;
events of the last link in this thrill
ing chain of prophecy. We are liv
ing in the days of the seventh trum
pet Of this time the prophet
; word says, Tie nations were angry
. 1 call you to witness the response o