p. 80 | THE RIVER EUPHRATES by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 9, 1857

THE RIVER EUPHRATES

By Editor

"An English company has been incorporated, with a capital of $5,000,000, to construct a railroad between the Mediterranean and the river Euphrates. A 'concession' has been granted by the Porte, and the company are already taking measures to commence vigorous operations. So we shall soon have a railroad down the Euphrates. Only think of a railroad conductor crying out, 'Nineveh, a quarter of an hour for dinner! Babylon, twenty minutes for supper!'"—Leslie's Illustrated Paper.

We do not know the route of the proposed railroad; but if it is to be confined to the Euphrates, it would be strange, indeed, to hear a conductor crying out, "Nineveh," which is situated on the river Tigris, some eighty miles to the east. Probably the writer of the above did not consult his geography.

But our object in introducing the above is to show that on the banks of the Euphrates there is to be a great commercial highway of nations. How then, can we think that when the time comes for the nations to be gathered to the battle of the great day, there will be no means of crossing that river, but that a special plague must be poured out to dry it up, before the kings of the East, that their way may be prepared. Rev. xvi, 12. The more one thinks upon this subject, the more, it seems, must he become convinced that the drying up of the Euphrates is the consumption of the Ottoman empire.