Turkey’s Defeat and the Gospel
By Editor
Germany is interested in maintaining things as they are in the Turkish Empire. Doubtless she has in mind her concession of a railway down through the Euphrates Valley from the Dardanelles to the Persian Gulf, with a strip of territory six miles wide on each side if we rightly remember. Turkey's dismemberment in Europe may affect Germany's standing in Asia and her commercialism generally in that part of the world. It is difficult for M. Poincaré, the French minister, to get the European powers to act on the principle or motive of "disinterestedness." How can Germany be disinterested? or Russia? or England, with her great East India possessions? Yet it is of interest. Turkey's defeat will for a time—God's time—give a freer field for God's last gospel message; and when that goes to all the world, then will the end come.