Who Will It Be? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Aug 2, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 31.

Who Will It Be?

By Editor

In a thoughtful editorial on Palestine and its conditions, the Melbourne Age of June 19, remarks that the Holy City "is a prize much coveted, and for practical purposes. Statesmen are sufficiently alive to the not-extinct power of the religious sentiment to be anxious to secure for their sovereigns control, if not ownership, of a site which confers a kind of ecclesiastical primacy upon its master." The article speaks of Russian, French, German, Greek Church and Catholic Church influence, and the desire of the Zionists to make it again a strong Jewish city. It also remarks: "Others see the prospect of the creation of a small principality which would become the appropriate sanctuary of every relic that a Christian holds dear." But in the present spiritual, compromising condition of Christendom, it may be settled once for all, if such a plan were carried out, the prince at Jerusalem would be the pope. Would you be surprised to see this realized?