War in Europe | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1870

War in Europe.

WILKES' Spirit of the Times predicts that a European war is imminent which will certainly involve the whole of Europe, and perhaps change the destiny of Asia. The writer thinks it strange that no warning of the coming storm has been given to the world through the European press, and that no American journalist has perceived the signs in this direction. He says: “The war that we speak of is the obvious breach which is now imminent between the Pacha of Egypt and the Sultan, the former acting under the patronage of Russia, and the latter standing not only

for his authority in Egypt, but for his foothold in Stamboul.” The Pacha has spent vast sums of money in the United States for munitions of war, drawn probably from the Russian treasury. The writer continues:

“But the most significant of all the signs which the Pacha has given of the friend who instigates and counsels him is to be found in the fact not only that he has sought his arms in the United States, but has sought his generals among the federal officers who figured in the late rebellion.”

After naming six American officers now en route to Egypt to enter the service of the Pacha, he adds: “Here we have signs sufficient of the large measure of the war which is now on the point of cracking with its own fullness, but of which no journal has yet spoken. To what enormous limits such a war as this may finally extend, we have unbounded warrant for conjecture. France must take sides, and so must England, the moment Russia moves.”

Since the fall of the Ottoman empire, at the close of the sixth trumpet, in 1840, that power has existed by the sufferance of the so-called Christian nations of Europe. Hence, they all have an intense interest in its destiny. There is consequently no point in Europe where a disturbance would call so many actors into the arena, as here. And we expect to see disturbance and trouble brooding over that ill-fated power, till under the sixth plague it is entirely wiped out to prepare the way for the battle of the great day, according to Rev. 16: 12.