Correspondence.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 154, 31 December 1895, Page 2

Correspondence.

THE TURKISH CRISIS. TO THE EDITOB. Sir, — At present the Turkish question is a subject of much speculation, attended with no small amount of anxiety. What will be the outcome of the existing phase of the Turkish trouble is probably the thought of millions more or less interested therein. The question of many will be, Has the day of her dismemberment come at last? Or, will she be allowed to drag on a few more years of a sickly existence before she finally expires, and the members of her Empire, which have been so long coveted, be distributed among the various nationalities gathered round the doomed nation. Are the predictions of Napoleon I about to be verified that Russia, sooner or later, would have the " capital of the Eastern Cesars," and the Holy City of the Greek section of the Professing Church become the property of the Czar, and that the noble structure erected by Justinian twelve centuries ago shall, after the lapse of a thousand years, be restored to the Greek worship. Sir, we know that it has been the aim and object of the Moscovite, since the day of that remarkable man, Peter the Great, who mapped out the future of the Empire, and enjoined it as a sacred duty on the part of his successors to seek to establish universal dominion, first, by alliances with Austria and France, which were the two Great Powers of his day (outside the British Empire). With their assistance he hoped to subdue the weaker powers and, finally, extinguish the British sovereignty over land and sea, then persuade one of his allies to join him under promise of dividing the World's dominion to crush the others who in turn he would devour, and thus, on the ruins of kingdoms and the wreck of empires, establish one universal Moscovite dominion over which the Czar would be the spiritual and temporal head. This dream of a universal Russian monarchy will never be realised. The Great Architect and Monarch of All Worlds has declared otherwise. The boundaries of the Roman Empire will be restored as they were in the days of Augustus Cesar, | over which ten confederate kings will hold sway presided over by an Imperial head. So says the Scriptures. That there will be a terrible struggle between the great Northern colossus and his allies, among which China may probably be included, and the revived Roman faith in this its last and most terrible form seems indisputable. But, it is equally clear that the ten-horned confederacy will prevail, and her Imperial elected head will, despite the utmost efforts of the Muscovite, become the monarch of the world for the brief space of three and a-half years. In order that these prophecies may be fulfilled, the dominion of the Turk must pass away, so that the first great political change mapped out by the Creator and Governor of the Universe may become an accomplished fact, and the Holy Land be restored to the Jew, who will either rebuild the Temple, or purify and use the Mosque of Omar, said to.be built on the ground once occupied by the Temple built by Solomon (see Gibbon's Decline and Fall of Rome). Be this as it may the oblation and sacrifice will be established as of old. Much more might' be said as to what will follow before Gentilism shall have run its course. But this much seems clear that Jehovah's governmental dealings with His ancient people necessitates the removal of the Turk in order that a restoration of His Worship may take place at the Holy City on the lines pre-established, but which, by reason of Jewish failure, have suffered an interruption of well-nigh two thousand years. And this gather* ing of the Gentile nations at Constantinople may lead to the first step towards the accomplishment of the inevitable. I am, etc., J. B. Roots.