PROPHETIC TRUTH ACKNOWLEDGED.
By Uriah Smith
The extent to which an application of prophecy to events now transpiring, is acknowledged by men of different religious denominations, is somewhat remarkable. We gave last week a notice, taken from the Chicago Evening Journal, of a discourse by Dr. Newman, of Washington, D. C., in which he applies the last verse of Dan. 11, to the Turkish power, and believes that the present movement between the Turks and Russians will see a fulfillment of it. We give this week an extract from a paper published by a Methodist minister, in Brooklyn, N. Y., in which he admits that men must yield to the evidence of their senses, that the illusion of a temporal millennium is dispelled by the unfavorable outlook, and that the coming of Christ is at hand. And now a religious writer, in the Saginaw (Mich.) Daily Republican, admits the application of Rev. 16:12, to the Turkish power, and thinks it will be fulfilled in the present war. A paragraph from this will be of interest to our readers. It is headed, “ ‘And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared.’ Rev. 16:12. “We do not propose to offer anything like an exegesis upon the strange vision of St. John, the divine, but simply wish to call attention to the present war and its relation to this prophecy. That the days of Mohammedan misrule are about ended is a self-evident fact. The man sick so long has become a stench in the nostrils of the nations of the earth, and all would willingly assist at his obsequies with, possibly, the one exception of England, who would have to pay the funeral charges in the loss of her highway to India. It is useless to insist that the Moslem empire should longer exist. For ages this nation of bigots has acted as a clog upon the wheels of progress. Enlightenment of any kind has been absolutely forced upon them. They are beholden to Christian nations for existence for years past. Lust and bloodshed have ever been their governing principles, and now, whether it be a coincidence or not, the vision of John on the island of Patmos is being verified. “Viewed from simply a political aspect, we insist that it is high time that this nuisance amid nations should be removed. Freedom demands it; religion demands it; the sanitary laws governing the health of the world demand it; and as in the case of other nations in the past who failed in fulfilling their mission, so must the Moslem pass away, and the crescent give place to the cross.” U. S.