Your ShelfYour Projects

Note and Comment

50%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Oct 15, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 41.

Read the full edition

Note and Comment

PREDICTIONS of the impending division of the Turk’s European possessions are beginning to be heard. Canon Malcolm MacColl, a well-known writer on the Eastern question, and ex-chaplain to the British ambassador at St. Petersburg, also an authority on Mohammedanism as a theocratic system of government, declares that Germany, Austria, and Russia “are giving a free hand to the sultan because they have agreed to the partition of Turkey in Europe. Austria is to have a protectorate over Servia, with half of Macedonia down to Salonika. Russia will get the other half of Macedonia, with a protectorate over Bulgaria, while Germany will get a slice of Asiatic Turkey and the port of Salonika.” Whether Turkey is to be divided in this or in some other way is not an important question to us; but the fact that students of the Eastern question realize the impending nearness of the event which is to mark the termination of Turkish power in Europe, is a reminder that the day of the Lord is near and hasteth greatly.