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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                            ~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

                                          Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
                   Porte,  with  the  additional  advantage  of


               being  assignee  in  possession,  leaving


               creditors with prior claims out in the cold.”




               The  following  paragraph  taken  from  the


               Philadelphia Public Ledger, August, 1878, sets


               forth  an  instructive  and  very  suggestive


               exhibit of the shrinkage of Turkish territory


               within the past sixty years, and especially as


               the result of the war of 1877: —



               “Any one who will take the trouble to look at a


               map of Turkey in Europe dating back  about


               sixty  years,  and  compare  that  with  the  new


               map sketched by the treaty of San Stefano as


               modified by the Berlin Congress, will be able


               to form a judgment of the march of progress


               that  is  pressing  the  Ottoman  power  out  of


               Europe.  Then,  the  northern  boundary  of


               Turkey                extended                 to         the          Carpathian
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