p. 290 | LAST DAYS OF ISLAMISM

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1880

LAST DAYS OF ISLAMISM.

A TRAVELER among the mountains of Asia Minor, who had pitched his tent not very far from the birthplace of the apostle to the Gentiles, in the province of Cilicia, was surprised the other day by a poor ignorant Turkish woman coming up to his door, and asking him if it was really true that the day of judgment was near. "On questioning her," he writes, "as to her reasons for making such an inquiry, I found that she had heard the villagers, especially the leading men, express the opinion that the last days of Islamism had come, and that the whole world is about to be judged for its wickedness. To-day I have had a long conversation with a Turkish cadi, or judge, the drift of whose conversation took the same direction. These two persons represent the extremes of society among the Turks, yet they are agreed as to the decadence, and probable collapse of the Turkish power. A large majority of the Turks are despondent. Their despondency is rather increased, than otherwise, by seeing their Christian neighbor hopeful, and increasing in prosperity. The Christians are looking in all directions to see what they can do to prepare themselves and their children for the new era that seems to be dawning upon them."—London Sunday at Home.