Prophecy Fulfilled in Macedonia
History records the fulfilment of prophecy, but the writers of it are not always aware of the fact. During the recent Macedonian revolt, a press despatch from Rome said:— The horrors committed by the Turks all over Macedonia did not escape the attention of Pius IX., who sent, through the archbishop of Phillippopolis, a contribution of $1,000 to alleviate their sufferings. The Macedonia refugees were so grateful for the gift that a great movement toward the Roman Catholic Church has started among the Bulgarians, who are encouraged by their central committee to embrace the Catholic faith in order to escape the persecutions of the Turks. It has become known that Pius X. has instructed Mgr. Bonetti, the apostolic delegate at Constantinople, to ask the sultan for protection for all the Catholics of the empire, and that the sultan, fearing the great power of the pope among Catholic nations, has readily promised to see personally that no harm shall come to any of his Catholic subjects through the barbarity and cruelty of the Turkish soldiers. Pius X. is gradually extending his interest as head of the church all over the world. And he might have added that, in fulfilment of prophecy, the pope is extending his influence all over the world. See Rev. 13:1-9.