The Eastern Question by The Methodist

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 21, 1876

The Eastern Question.

By The Methodist

ABDUL HAMID, another drunken idiot, is sultan, in place of Murad, who has been deposed. Three sultans in as many months! Servia seems to have been practically demolished at Alexinatz. Montenegro has been reported in better accord with Servia, and the six powers are consulting. Their consulting may come to something, if it be true, as seems probable, that Russian energy is coming to the help of the Slaves; for the next step may be a general war, or the ruin of the Turkish beast, as the only escape from war. The case may drag on, but a return to the old status looks impossible now. A suggestive article in the British Quarterly, for July, hints that Russian rule at Constantinople would be possible if England and France could agree about Egypt, the rest might be easy. It looks impossible to keep Turkey on her feet, but the attempt may be made.

—The Methodist.