Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-02-20
TURKEYS DOWN. ALL
APPEARS CERTAIN
Seventh-Day Adventists Have
Been Preaching It for Sixty
Years.

entn-day Adventist church gave an
unusually interesting interview yes
! terday on The meaning of the EurUp-
can War From Prophetic Stand
point" Mr.. Barney said that the Scv-
enth day Adventists all over the world
/ have for the past sixty years have
been preaching the downfall Of Tur-
key in Europe, and one of their be
| liefs is that the Turk will eventually
come to his end as a>nation entirely,
the contamination of this event com
ing with the Battle OF Armageddon,
when Christ will make His second
return
Never before in the history of the
world have mems ideals been so sud
denly and completely shattered" he
continued. Just at the moment when
the churches and peace societies were
giving the cry of Peace and Safety
and nations were signing treaties not
to learn war any more, the greatest
war OF the centuries burst unexpected
~ upon the world. The bright hopes
| Of the prophets, who predicted a mil
lcnnial reign Of peace on earth, to be-
SIN IN 1914, were hopelessly blasted.
"A spirit Of inquiry as to the mean
ing Of these things is taking possess
ION Of all classes of people, both l.
| mong the learned and unlearned, Yet
amid distress and perpleXity of men
| and Of nations who are cropping thci
way in the darkness, there is a beacon
light set up to show all wanderers the
safe way. In this dark night OF sill
and woe, OF despair and misery, ana
OF carnage and death, there is one
bright star Of hope which shines
forth from the thick clouds of mystery
| and illumination the future pathway
OF the pilgrim who is in search Of
better land. This matter 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 and the divine hand is seen, as
nations rise and fall in the struggle
for supremacy. Fourteen long chains
! OF prophecy are recorded in the Bible.
Some of these prophecies reach
| nearly $500 years in the past. and
! give us Waymarks from that far dis
| tant point to our own time, and show
us what we may yet expect in the fut-
ure. Every one of these long chains of
prophecies terminates with either one
| OF tour events, namely, the final
Judgement day, the second cominb of
Christ in over and great glory, the
resurrection Of the dead, and the re-
establishment and restoration of the
everlasting kingdom of God on earth
after the destruction CT all rival earth
ly Kingdoms and Governments.
Centuries before Ninevah was des-
troyed by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,
Cyaxeres of Medo-Persia, and Necho
of Egypt, the prophet Nahum said
Ninevah was to be covered with abb
ominable filth, should never be inhab-
tied again, and its ruins were to be-
| come a gazing stock of the world One
hundred and fourteen years before
Cyrus was born the prophet Isaiah
| predicted that ruler by the name of
| Cyrus was to overthrow the Babylon
ian kingdom and lay the great city Of
Babylon in heaps. Cyrus was sixty
years of age when he fulfilled this
prediction which was made TIA years
before. The angel Gabriel revealed to
| Daniel that Grecia was to overthrow
Persia and besome a world power 207
years before Alexander conquered the
world. In the third year of Cyrus, king
OF Persia, the angel Gabriel gave Dan
iel detailed explanation Of the his