THE PREDICTED FALL OF TURKEY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 751, 24 April 1877, Page 3

THE PREDICTED FALL OF TURKEY.

Jijf.Jtjfii old bodk l>y one Robert-Flem-there are *some singular, "pre-

dictions: the late- daysL. o? entitled "Tfhe Kise. and Fail ;#> Rome Papal? was-first hundred and seventy-five years ir : l3ea ; rs ? date, i« London l^ January' Ist; 1701, being the first day both of -the-y&lr 'inwfthe cdfttury," Flemfather was one- os the four df the Churchjot Scotland?/*jeote4 in . 163 0. * m ' brisQnfcd for some time in the Stolfcopfch* ,an 4 afterwards liberated,/ ihe sought refuge in Holland, was, jwhileiherS/alpersonal friend of the Prince .of; Orange, and died in Lon-. tfori on a "visit'to the Prince in his new-kingdom. Young Fleming was educated iuLeydon and TOSchfc' K Scholastic theology was to him a life study. He was ordained to the Presbyterian Church in Leyden, and afterwards called to London. - |King, TiUotson,v Oldfield, and Some*s*Lwere among hisr'■". intimate,, personal friends, He i &$' m .London in 1716.' The book to Vhich y '■ pur correspondent calls than once been reprinted. 'ln J 1793, when of > about to suffer] \ jrjn- the scaffold,,, the; predictions: oil Eleming excited much: attention j in revolution - was > as. i |»wng i fiteent* a tfftfsNcontended tba't, 'bev his pfineipiea'bf;interpretation riijjht or Jpt^ngs 1 ;; oftbe lypjjej ;?haye t 'jb§eni ; the. evented Tha following are pa'ssagels whiolf areheld to-hav'ebeen already fulfilled P; . '

'" I cannot but hope that some new mortification of the* ehie'f supporters of Antichrist will then happen ; and perhaps French Monarchy may, biegih to be considerably humbled about that,,J;ime % , "Whereas s the French kirig : takes; the: ,suri for his emblem,, his niotto, mc ipay, at<length,< or, t^ratherwhis;'supcessdrs, ;and the Monarchy itself— : at; least - before the /yfiap) 1794:---be! forced acknowledge that/; in; respect to neighbouringl potentates; he is even singul ' -nviii^if.r- 1848.v*

' "The fifth vial pievj ver. 10 11) is ,to» : be' poutdd"' 'out ; ; on the dominiottsthat mote imlnediately belong to and depend upon the Eoman See. , . This judgment will'probably beghi atioitt 1794, arid expire about 1848. . . But yet we.are not to imagine that this vial will totally destroy - :/the Papacy—though it will exceedingly weaken it, for; we/;shall' find this still iff being and alive When the next vial is ! poured out."' " *-y: : Those who read iri ! these passages fulfilled! pto^hecy : * will> 'probably enough, attach equal importance to the next succeeding of Fleming's predictions. It is as follows i- 1 < : --"1848,1900 - > : ■'

"The sixth vial will be poured put upon the Mahometan, Antiohrist. .'' V : Seeing ; 'the sixth trumpet brought the Turks iVom beyond the Euphrates, from crossing which river they date their rise|' ; sixth viar dries up their waves, and exausts their poWer, as the means' arid ways' to prepare and dispose the Eastern kings arid kingdoms to repQwnoe'their heathenish and Mahometan errors. . i There is bo need to-give you any conjec sures about ■ the cbriclnsiori of the sixth vial, or the beginning of the last. ■?* V : : I .' • Thefirst ! of tSese will probably take up mpst/.of the time ; between the year 1848 arid the'year ■■ • . Our blessed Lord seems "to tell that 1 the destruction of all these His enemies will be aQconiplisT hed speedily, a/little time in comparison with the other vial. Supposing, then, that the Turkish Monarchy should be totally destroyed between 1848 may justly %mg\\ seventy or eighty yeftfs longer to the end of the sixth, vial." ! ; ; f ' Then comes the Armageddon of to %»beginning of the end ! of