The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-07-24
,0NMERCIAL JEALlus!Es
CAUSED BIG WORLD WAR
.,xr-yTIST PROFESSOR MAKES
INTERESTING TALK On
EUROPEAN WAR.
rqSms AdyentiSts Are Optimistic De-
cause Of Enlightenment From
the Word of God.

prof c. SOrenSon preached ~ lhe
adventist Encampment sunday eve
une his subject being After the
war. WHAT"
The professor, who holds the chair
of history in Washington. ID. c.,
college. outlined as framework for
,ss sermon the histories of the ma
| ,,ons in the great war. lie stated
| ,bat owing to the complex national
activities OF the nations involved,
/ that II is impossible for countries
an small as Germany or England to
support the millions Of people within
their borders without colonial pos
/ aassions. and tlrat the present war
vas caused mainly by commercial
jealousy. for which he assigned the
following reasons: The desire OF
the nations to get back what they
have in former wars lost, illustrated
nv France in relation to Alsace Lor-
raipe the desire of the nations to
expand more legitimate racial as
pirations. as illustrated by the Bal
kan states in relation to Turkey and
Austria. and Italy in regard to Aus
tro-Hungary the desire of nations to
expand commercially and politically
because of surplus population, as IL
lustrated by Germany in her Weltpo-
ntik the desire of nations to pre-
vent commercial and political expan-
sion, illustrated by Geat Britain and
Russia In regard to Germany and
Austria.
The professor stated that during
the last century, ten new nations
have been spread on the map of Eu-
rope, and the territory having been
therefore already filled to overflow
ing, trouble had to ensue as result
of national ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The
chief nation of the ten is the Ger
man Empire which was made into a
nation OF from 1900 principalities
which were combined into So states,
and out or these in 1870, after the
o-Prussian war, was the German
Empire created.
There are groups of primary and
secondary powers in the present
struggle; Great Britain and Russia,
her secondary power in one group,
and the German Empire and her sec
ondary. Austria. in the second group.
When her colonial aspirations
were thwarted, Germany turned her
attention to the near East with an
agreement for domination of the Bal
kan states by Austria. and the DOM
nation of the Mesopotamian in Asia
Minor by Germany. The Berlin-to
Bagdad railroad was the chief CEN
ter of Germany's development In
seeking for a fortified terminal on
the Persian Gulf, she ran counter to
the interest of Great Britain, and in
ence at Constantinople, she and Aus
tria became entangled with Russian
interests.
For decades Russian ambition has
been to secure an outlet from the
Black Sea through the Dardanelles,
and Great Britain has been opposed
to this development and, therefore,
Great Britain has supported the
Turkish Empire in the past against
Russian aggression. In this present
world alignment. Great Britain, per-
haps, does not fear Russia less. but
she does fear Germany more, so 1t
seems that from whichever stand
point we may view the outcome Of
the war. the doom of the Turkish re-
CINE at Constantinople is before us.
I'm the II of Daniel" the pro-
lessor continued. 1--WE find the east
ern territory divided up into four
sections, dating back from the days
of Alexander. known respectively as
the King of the North, the King of
the South, the King of the East and
the King of the West. The terri
tory now occupied by the Turkish
Peninsula of Asia Minor and Meso-
potamian Syria constituted the King
dom of the North. In the closing
portion of the chapter. verses 40 TO
45, we find it stated that the King
of the North will move his taberna-
Gle and plant 1t in the glorious Holy
Mountain between the seas. after
which he will come to his end and
none shall helm him. Turkey has