The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-08-06
THINKS WORLDS END
IS APPROACHING
DAY ADVENTIST ELDER
GIVES REASONS
Cites Prophecy to Prove That Titanic
Struggle in Europe Will End
= in Armageddon

The Messenger doesn't claim to be
well posted on the subject, having
been so busy with the middle that it
has not had time, perhaps not so much
as might have been profitable, to con-
slider the end of the world. But it is a
subject on which the dullest sometimes
speculates and is, therefore, interest
ing. 1t certainly would not be amiss to
get ready for the end of all things
which surely enough must soon come to
everyone. In view of all these gener-
ally accepted facts the following is
published:
Among the subjects discussed at the
tent meeting being held in this place by
the Seventh Day Adventists is that of
the great European war as related to
the fulfillment of the Scriptures. Elder
Rowland in lecture upon the Eastern
question Sunday night said: I'm the
settlement of the Eastern question is
bound to be the fate of the world. This
is not only the opinion of many states
men, but of inspired prophecy. The
territorial dominions of Turkey are
known to be the subject treated in the
eleventh chapter of Daniels prophecy
which terminates in the time of trouble
such as never was. The drying up of
the Ottoman military power, the mystic
river Euphrates, shown to John in the
Revelation, is passing event which
will open the way for the kings of the
East to enter Western lands along the
Mediterranean and join the battle Of
Armageddon in Palestine. Joel predict
ed the awakening of nations to the
world-war and the gathering of hea.
then armies in the Valley of Jehosophat
on the east of Jerusalem. That such q
conflict for the dominion of Asia is al.
ready being staged between the yellow
Pagan races of the Orient, led by Japan
and the so-called Christian powers oi
Europe has become sufficiently evident
to arouse the apprehension of all the
Western nations. The struggle seems
now both inevitable and near. Already
an understanding is being arrived al
and great league of nations is in pro-
gress of formation between India,
China, and Japan, by which another
Monroe doctrine is to be declared, anc
proclaiming Asia for the Asiatics.
''The part which Russia is to act ir
this closing drama is prominent sub
ject of Ezekiels predcation, recorded
more than five centuries before Christ
In chapter thirty-eight he describes the
ascendancy of this nation in the latter
days and says that it will come fortf
from the north and advance like 6
storm upon the land of Israel. Russian
ambition to gain Constantinople anc
dominate adjacent countries of Turk ey
and Persia are here indicated and al
ready may be seen in progress of full
fillment. Before the Turks came into
possession of Constantinople it was the
seat of the patriarch of the Greel
Church, now Russian, of whom the czal
is the imperial head. The desire to re-
store this ecclesiastical seat has Ions
been the cherished purpose of the Rus
sian Church. 1t would also give Russi;
warm sea port, thing she has Ions
wanted.
That the present war has opened tn,
way for these dreams of the Musco
vites to be realized through the actor
of England and France withdrawing
their hostile opposition to such move
and openly proclaiming their agreement
of the arrangement is regarded as ont
of the most startling developments Of
the Eastern question, and it is one o.
the most significant signs of the times
portending the immediate fulfillment o.
what has long been written in the wore
of Cod"
The part which Russia will play, il
the light of prophecy and of curren
events, in what the elder intimate,
might be the closing drama in tn
worlds history, was very interestingl,
portrayed. ###