TURKEY.
Of the empire of Turkey our native friends know but little. We must inform them, that the title of the Monarch of the Ottoman people is, the Sultan, and that the seat of his Government is at Constantinople where Constantine the Great, and other Emperors of Rome wielded the sceptre in days of yore. The Emperor of Turkey and his
nobles, live in great splendour, but the people generally, are ignorant, indolent, and barbarous. This is invariably the case with nations who shut their eyes and hearts against the pure truths of Christianity. Mahomed, who is known by the natives as the false prophet, was the founder of the unhallowed system of Mahomedanism. The Turks still adhere to the principles of their false teacher, and up to this hour, if a Mussulman embraces that religion which has made Britain the most powerful nation in the world, — if he will dare to hold the doctrines of the Bible, —-he is dragged forth publicly, and before an assembled populace, his head is severed from his body. The Turkish nation are lying under great and numerous obligations to the British and French ; but the entreaties of their powerful allies are altogether disregarded, when Mahomedan darkness and bigotry receives a blow by the conversion to the truth, of one of the subjects of the Sultan.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 January 1855, Page 17
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222TURKEY. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 January 1855, Page 17
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