The Eastern Question by C. S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1874

The Eastern Question.

By C. S.

ONE of the most striking fulfillments of prophecy we believe is to be furnished in the destiny of the Turkish Empire. This is involved in what is called the Eastern Question. This question occasionally subsides into an apparent calm, but it is not at rest. Below the surface the agitation is constantly working, and with increasing frequency is making itself seen and felt. In February last, the London Times published the following telegram:—

“PARIS, Feb. 17.—Much sensation has been caused here by an article in the ‘Augsberger Allgemeine Zeitung,’ declaring that the preservation of the Turkish Empire is not a dogma with Germany, and that if Germany and Russia should desire to transform the whole map of Eastern Europe, no one would prevent them. Most of this evening’s newspapers comment upon this article and regard the eastern question as again opened.”

Again under date of June 10, 1874, another dispatch appears in the Times as follows:—

“LONDON, June 10.—A special dispatch from Berlin to the ‘Times’ says the Governments of Germany, Servia, and Roumania have confidentially concluded an arrangement to mutually protect their interests and position against the designs of Turkey.

“Dispatches to the Daily Telegraph from Berlin assert that the difference between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sublime Porte are serious, and intimates that grave complications in the East are probable.”

Thus we may any day hear of the opening of a revolution which will fulfill Dan. 11 : 45, and be the signal for the standing up of Michael according to Dan. 12 : 1. C. S.