The War in the East by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1878

The War in the East.

By Editor

ACCORDING to the news of the past week from the Eastern war, the campaign during this time has been uniformly disastrous to the Turks. Other nations give no promise of substantial help; and the prospect looks worse for Turkey than ever before. In speaking upon this question we have ever been careful to guard against the idea that this present war must go on uninterruptedly till the Turkish government is entirely subverted. It may do so, and it may not. An armistice may be concluded, a temporary peace may intervene before the end. If there is a Sabbath-keeping people in Russia for whom a work is to be done, it would to us seem probable that the strife might be for a time suspended. Turkey comes to its complete end under the sixth plague, when as symbolized by the great river Euphrates, it is dried up. Rev. 16:12. But it would seem as if all the prophecies respecting the decline and overthrow of this power, with the attending scenes, were on the eve of immediate fulfillment.