Portents in the East by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 1, 1877

Portents in the East.

By Uriah Smith

In this peculiar time while the angels are holding the winds, the strongest indications of war and revolution may, for the time being, pass over, and the threatened outbreak not occur; but the winds are evidently struggling hard to burst forth and accomplish their devastating work upon the earth, and we may soon behold the commencement of that commotion which will result in the great and final whirlwind to be raised up from the coasts of the earth. The following is the substance of the latest dispatches from the East, that point around which so much interest now gathers. We find it in the Det. Evening News of Feb. 22, 1877:—

All signs point infallibly to an Eastern war. A dispatch to the N. Y. Herald says: “The mournful probability remains that the fresh verdure of the spring of 1877 will be dyed with the blood of slaughtered thousands.” Military authorities at Washington “regard it as certain that the end of March will see the armies of Russia marching in every direction upon Constantinople, and that we are at the beginning of events that will render existing maps of Europe extremely misguiding.” U. S.

We gave last week a notice of Bro. F. Nelson’s Review of Barnaby, and gave his address as Ithaca, Mich. He has lately changed his address to Cedar Lake, Montcalm Co., Mich. Brethren will please bear this in mind, when ordering his book.