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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
million. With her taxable territory reduced

almost to poverty-stricken Asia Minor, and

with her finances at present in a condition of

absolute chaos, it is difficult to see where she

is going to get the money, however ready her

present rulers may be to sign the contract.

“The proposition amounts to giving the czar a

permanent mortgage on the whole empire,

and contains an implied threat that he may

foreclose at any time, by the seizure of the

remainder of European Turkey. In this last

aspect, all Europe has a vital interest in the

matter, and particularly England, even if the

conditions were not in themselves calculated

to drive English creditors crazy, by destroying

their last hope of ever getting a cent of their

large investments in Turkish bonds. It makes

Russia a preferred creditor of the bankrupt