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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
longer bound by the treaty of 1856, which

restricted her use of the Black Sea; and since

that time that sea has been, as it was one

thousand years ago, to all intents and

purposes, a mare Russicum.” — San Francisco

Chronicle.

Napoleon Bonaparte well understood the

designs of Russia, and the importance of her

contemplated movements. While a prisoner

on the island of St. Helena, in conversation

with his governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, he gave

utterance to the following opinion: —

“In the course of a few years, Russia will have

Constantinople, part of Turkey, and all of

Greece. This I hold to be as certain as if it had

already taken place. All the cajolery and

flattery that Alexander practiced upon me was

to gain my consent to effect that object. I