The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-23
FILL Or EMPIRE of
TURK IS CERTAIN
Evangelist Scrns Looks to Its Extir-
naination as Sure Result OF the
European Conflagration.


This world is asleep" declared
Evangelist Serns last night at the BIZ
BILE Institute tent, "hypnotized by the
lure of power and territorial expan-
sion. The craze for money is destroy
Ing alike the souls of men, and foun-
dations of empires" Mr.. Serns said,
in speaking to a well-filled tent, Com
mercial greed and social injustice will
soon reap a harvest In a ripening civil
iization.
Just as surely as the mighty world
empire OF Belshazzar, king of Baby
Ion, fell after night spent in drunk
en- orgies. SO surely will the unseen
hand Of God write the doom of this
world upon its whited walls.
THE dream of the pacifist, while
beautiful to think on, Is but dream ;
for the fat of Jehovah Is when they
shall say peace and safety. then sud
den destruction cometh upon them.
There Is no prophecy of modern full
fillment. more significant than the one
uttered by the Prime Minister Of Per-
STA shortly before his death. Daniel
says concerning the king of the north
the Turkish empire--'He shall come
to his end and none shall help him.
In this present conflict In Europe,
the cause and blames are as many
as its battlefields, due object is to be
attained, and the entente powers have
pledged every man in their nations to
realize 1t.
End Of the Turk.
I'm the month of November, 1914
on the occasion of the lord mayors
| banquet In London, Premier Herbert
AsQuith. of England. delivered a most
notable and confidential speech. Al
the banquet were present all of the
am bassadors of the leading powers
and the great generals. Sir Douglas
Haig, Earl Kitchner. General Joffre
and others. The premier said some
thing as follows: The allied ma
tons can never forget the base In
gratitude of the Ottoman empire.
France and England over and over
again have kept the Turk from COM
ing to his end. And now. In our time
Of need, when we are fighting a battle
for our very lives. the perfidious pow
err has unsheathed his sword and up
on the side of our enemies. The al
lied nations have sworn that we will
never sheathe the sword but will flesh
it. and flesh 1t again and again no,
only until the Turk Is driven from
Europe. but until he Is extinguished
as an Asiatic power.
Many a statesman, like DAME
twenty-five hundred years ago, has
declared the destruction of the Turk
ish empire. Lord Palmerston said 1t
Lord John Russell. the Earl Of Bea.
consfield. Gladstone and Bismarck
said 1t, but never till Herbert Asquitt
| spoke. has any word been uttered b,
any statesman to the effect that the
| time had come when the Turk mus
be driven. not onlv from Europe, but
be exterminated as On Asiatic power
Whichever power wins, the one
thing is certain--the Turk will be fac
ed with no alternative but to retreat
on the highway of destruction"
Mr. Serns. who has spent many
years in studying this prophecy, de.
clares that "unquestionably the ulti
mate dispersement of the Sultan's ter
ritory will be the signal for the fina
scenes OF this worlds history. Tn,
next great event will be the comm,
| of Jesus Christ. which will spell thu
doom OF this world. The dreaming
pacihst will then awaken In dread
| full nightmare, and on the blood
| stained garments of the nations vii
read: Thou are weighed In the bal
ance and found wanting"
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