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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
‘home rule’ under a Christian governor. And

so again the frontier of Turkey in Europe is

pressed back on all sides, until the territory

left is but the shadow of what it was sixty

years ago. To produce this result has been the

policy and the battle of Russia for more than

half a century; for nearly that space of time it

has been the struggle of some of the other

‘powers’ to maintain the ‘integrity’ of the

Turkish empire. Which policy has succeeded,

and which failed, a comparison of maps at

intervals of twenty-five years will show.

Turkey in Europe has been shriveled up in the

last half century. It is shrinking back and back

toward Asia, and, though all the ‘powers’ but

Russia should unite their forces to maintain

the Ottoman system in Europe, there is a

manifest destiny visible in the history of the

last fifty years that must defeat them.”