The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-03-18

uaH adventist cnurch gave an un
usually interesting interview yesterday
on The Meaning of the European Wa
from Prophetic Standpoint Mr.
Croskrey said that the Seventh day Ad
ventists all over the world have TO,
the past sixty years been preaching
the downfall of Turkey in Europe. and
one of their beliefs is that the Turk
will eventually come to his end as a
nation entirely, the contamination of
this event coming with the Battle of
Armageddon, when Christ will make his
second return.
'Never before in the history of the
world have men s ideals been so sud
denly and completely shattered,' he
continued. "Just at the moment when
tho churches aud peace societies were
giving the cry of Peace and Safety,
and nations were signing peace treaties
not to learn war any more, the great
est war of the centuries burst mcxpcrt
eddy upon the world. The bright hopes
of the prophets, who predicted mil
lennial reign of peace on earth. to be.
gin in 1914, were hopelessly blasted.
"A spirit of inquiry as to the mean
ing of these things is taking possession
OF all classes of people, both among
the learned and unlearned. Yet amid
the distress and perplexity of men and
of nations who are cropping their way
in the darkness, there is a beacon light
set up to show all wanderers the safe
way. In this dark night of sin and
woe, of despair and misery, and of
carnage and death, there is one bright
star of hope which shines forth from
the thick clouds of mystery and illum-
mates the future pathway of the pill
grim who is in search Of better land.
This monitor Of light which shines
brighter and brighter as time goes on,
is the Sacred Volume from heaven
Above the din Of battle and con
flict such as the world has never wit
messed before, the voice of God is heard
"ii' tSV NiNlH0 manu- Is SttIl, as DHIlOnS
rise and fall in the struggle for supre-
macy. Fourteen long chains Of prophecy
are recorded in the Bible Some of these
prophecies reach nearly $500 years into
the past, and give US waymarks from
that far distant point to our own time,
and show us what we may yet expect
i'll the future. Everyone of these long
chains of prophecies terminates with
either one of four events, namely, the
final Judgment day, the second coming
of Christ in power and great glory, the
resurrection of the dead, and the re-es-
Establishment and restoration of the ever
lasting kingdom of God on earth after
the destruction of all rival earthly king
doms and governments.
"Centuries before Ninevah was do
stroycd by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,
CvaXores of Medo-Persia, and Necho of |
Egypt, the prophet Nahum said Nine
Veh was to be covered with abominable |
nth, should never be inhabited again,
i"'i its ruins were to become gazing
sock to the world One hundred and |
fourteen wears before Cyrus was born
Inc prophet Isaiah predicted that n
'uler by the name Of Cyrus was to over
throw the Babylonian kingdom and lay
he great city of Babylon in heaps. !
jyrus was sixty years of age when he
fulfilled this prediction which was
made ia years before. The angel Ga
'riel revealed to Daniel that Grecia
vas to overthrow Persia and become a
world power 207 years before Alexan-
Ter conquered the world In the third
ear of Cyrus, king of Persia, the angel
iabriel gave Daniel detailed ex
'lanation of the history of the world
rom that distant point to the over
brow of the Turkish empire and the
md of the world in the present age.
9 The sacred volume says that when
the king of the north shall come to
us end in the valley of the Euphrates
nd at Armageddon, which territory is
ow ruled over by the Turk, it will
sher in the time of trouble such as
ever since there was II nation 1t also
avs that 'at that time Michael !
Christi shall stand up; and j.
t that time thy people shall be de-
'vered, every one that shall be found !
'ritten in the book. And many of |
hem that sleep in the dust of the earth
hall awake. Dan. 12-12.
The important question for every
ne of us to settle is not how we NAV {
nrich ourselves by Turkeys msfor-
lne, for when Turkey goes down, the {
hole world goes down in a universal {
rash, The very next verse following
ne account of the battle of Arranged
on says: And there came great
dice out of the temple OF heaven, from