p. 1 | PREPARING FOR WAR by S. B. Whitney

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 23, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 12.

PREPARING FOR WAR

By S. B. Whitney

LAST-DAY TOKENS.—NO. 5.

PREPARING FOR WAR.

In an editorial, of a late issue of the N. Y. Weekly Times, entitled, Andrassy’s Prescription, occur the following passages indicative of the state of things in the East, and the conviction that presses upon thinking minds that “the tremendous armaments which all the great powers of Europe have been collecting” will soon be brought into requisition.

S. B. WHITNEY.

“Indeed, so desperate is the case of the ‘sick man’ of Europe, that his neighbors would not scruple about stepping in and sharing his possessions if they did not fear that in the scramble for the spoils they would leave their own houses open to attack, and precipitate a quarrel which would create another ‘sick man.’ Russia is jealous of Prussia, and the latter power would not overlook any advantage which might offer for the ‘rectification’ of her boundary line on the east. Austria would like a slice of Turkey; but the sagest statesmen of that empire are convinced that the nature of the addition would only serve to increase the inclination of its somewhat overbalanced condition.

“There can be no doubt that the state of Turkey is desperate. In the spring there is every indication that the rebellion will spread until the whole of the Christian provinces are involved. Count Andrassy’s remedy may postpone the fate of Turkey for a year or two if it is accepted; but the very acceptance of his plan precludes anything like a restoration of the power of Turkey in Europe.

“On the other hand, if Turkey refuses to accept in good faith the offer of Austria, the opening of spring may witness the beginning of a strife which may call into action the tremendous armaments which all the great powers of Europe have been collecting. Our country is deeply interested, commercially and otherwise, in the present crisis. The latter portion of our centennial year seems likely to be as productive of startling events as the year in which our national existence began.”