p. 16 | The Gospel to Turkey

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 26, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 21.

The Gospel to Turkey.

As the following words from the Outlook give a good picture of the results of the present trouble in the East, we quote them: “By the irony of fate, the deposed Sultan has been taken to Salonika, a city known beyond any other in Turkey for its liberal views. It was there that the constitutional movement had its inception; it is there that the constitution’s greatest foe has been taken. Had he been taken to Asia instead, his presence might have excited reaction among the ignorant Mohammedan hordes. But the people of Salonika are wide awake. It is a great commercial port and an emporium for nearly two hundred thousand people. The Sultan will there be judged by the most intelligent of his former subjects. Whatever his personal fate, his political fate has now been sealed. The most shameful chapter in Turkish history has at last come to an end. It probably marks the beginning of the end of Oriental absolutism in Turkey and the beginning of Occidental constitutional democracy in that country.” And all of this is but to say that there is to be freedom for the Gospel and for those who carry the Gospel as has not been for ages. We are in the days of the third angel’s message, when the everlasting Gospel is to go to the world, and God is opening the way. He is making the highway for the heralds of the Coming One. The crooked places are being made straight, the hills lowered, the valleys and gulches filled, and on the smooth highway of personal liberty the Gospel messenger marches on to announce the way of salvation and the soon coming of the Saviour.