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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
owing principally to the sudden and

unexpected humiliation of the French nation,

as stated above.

Russia then saw that her opportunity had

come. She accordingly startled all the powers

of Europe in the fall of the same memorable

year, 1870, by stepping forth and deliberately

announcing that she designed to regard no

longer the stipulations of the treaty of 1856.

This treaty, concluded at the termination of

the Crimean war, restricted the warlike

operations of Russia in the Black Sea. But

Russia must have the privilege of using those

waters for military purposes, if she would

carry out her designs against Turkey; hence

her determination to disregard that treaty just

at the time when none of the powers were in a

condition to enforce it.