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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
Since 1878 the tendency of all movements in

the East has been in the same direction,

foreboding greater pressure upon the Turkish

government in the direction of its expulsion

from the soil of Europe. The occupation of

Egypt by the English, which took place in

1883, is another step toward the inevitable

result, and furnishes a movement which the

Independent, of New York, ventures to call

“the beginning of the end.”

In 1895 the world was startled by the report

of the terrible atrocities inflicted by the Turks

and Kurds upon the Armenians. Reliable

reports show that many thousands have been

slaughtered, with every circumstance of

fiendish cruelty. The nations through their

ambassadors protest and threaten; the sultan

promises, but does nothing. He evidently has