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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 19.

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WHAT WILL FOLLOW?

By C. P. B.

In a recent editorial article relative to the attitude of the other European Governments towards Russia, the Christian at Work says:—
“Some day these barriers will be overcome, and Russia will have an open highway to the Mediterranean, and the unspeakable Turk will be driven out of Europe.”
“When that time comes,” says the Christian at Work, “religious toleration in Russia, with amenableness to the spirit of the age, will follow as certainly and as swiftly as night is followed by the dawn.”
Indications are not lacking which show that the day is not far distant when the Turk will be forced to retreat from the banks of the Bosphorus, but religious toleration will not follow. When the time comes that the Turk forsakes his present capital, he will plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in “the glorious holy mountain [Jerusalem]; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.” “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Dan. 11:45; 12:1-4.
The departure of the Turk from Europe will be, not the forerunner of a more liberal era in Russia, but of the destruction of all things earthly, to be followed in due time by the everlasting, glorious kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. C. P. B.