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by and. b. freeman. f B E END OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE. A I>i(*conr© the Rev. J. B- Ilillhousc, t Calhoun, (ia, July, 1977. Dnniel 11 : 45. “lie shall corae to bis , n j a nd none shall help him.” It is not, brethion, to gratify an idle curiosity that we should study the propheoies of the Bible, but to strength en our beliet of the Bible, and to pro mote the study and practice qf its doc trines. i j Ji ii 4 One method of reasoning is to state a theory, and if all connected facts agree with this theory, infer it to be true. Let us then say that the subject of my test is the Sultan representing the Turkish empire ; and that the meaning of my text is, The Turkish empire shall come to its end and none shall help it. Some may think what will thi.t prove ? It requires no Daniel to foretell that the Turkish empire will Come to its end : every empire has come to its end or will soon do this. We reply that when you consider the end of the Turkish empire in connection with the history of Mo hamodism from its rise you will have clear proof of the foreknowledge, by inspiration, of Daniel and John, and of the divinity and truth of the Holy Scriptures. The first prediction we have of Mo hamedism is in Daniel 8: 9. “And out of one of them came forth a little horn." Syria was one of the four kingdoms into whioh the empire of Ala exander was divided. Out of Syria came Mohamedism. It is true Mobam cd himself was not born in Syria, but his power was first established in Syria and thus the prophecy was fulfilled. “Which [power] waxed exceeding great toward the South, and toward the Last, and toward the pleasant land." The Mohamcdans soon conquered Syria and fixed their capital in it ; they then oonquered Arabia, Egypt a .and the Bar bary States in the South ; Persia and other countries in the East, and the pleasant land oHralestine. “And it [Mohamedism] waxed great even against the host of Heaven [against Christians] and it cast down some of the host and of the stars [eminent Christians] to the ground and stamped upon them. Yea, he magnified himself against the prince of the host [Christ]." Mohauicd allowed that Jesus was an omiuent prophet, but ho declared he himself was above Jesus. And by him the daily sacrifice was taken away and the place of [God’s] sanctuary was cast down, and he cast down the truth to the ground, and he practiced and pros pered " One hundred years after the flight of Mohamed his successors lmd conquered a large part of Asia, Africa and some of Europe. In all this vast domain they practiced and prospered ; they destroyed thousands of churches ; they cast Christian truth down to tho ground and stamped upon it; they kill ed myriads of Christians and seduced other myriads into apostacy. The time when this Mohamedan King was to rise was in’ the latter time of the four Greek kingdoms, when the transgressors were come to the full. The prophecy was not to be fulfilled be fore the coming of the Messiah, it was to be for many days. History tells us that at the beginning of the seventh century Christians in the Roman em pire, east and west, had become very corrupt iu faith and practice, and need ed chastisement. Hence God, with indignation at their corruptions, sent upon them the horrible Saracenic wo. Twelve centuries before the event, Daniel described Mohamed and the Ca lipps as of a fierce countenance, under standing dark sentences, of mighty power, destroying wonderfully, practi cing and prospering, destroying the mighty and the holy people, that is Christians. All of theso features were realized in Mohamed and his successors, as history records. Let us now consider another predic tion of Mohamedism in the ninth chap ter of Revelations. “And the fifth an gel souoded [his trumpet], and I saw a star fall from Heaven unto the earth." The opinion we prefer\is that this faH len star was the Bishop of Rome, once a true minister of Christ, a brilliant star, since fallen in apostacy to be the Pope of Rome. He has oppressed and exalted himself—2d Thess. 2 ; 4 —above all that is called God, or that is wors shipped ; so that he, as God, sat in the temple of God [the visible church] showing himself that he was God. But the Almighty will soon show all the world that tho Popo is a fallen star, the man of sin, the son of perdition. John continues, Rev. 9; 1,2, “and to him [the Pope] was given tho key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit." This appears to signify the mighty influence of the Pope in promo ting wickedness—those sins which pro voked the holy God to unloose the spir its of devils to go forth and deceive those who received not the love of the truth. Thus the Pope had a mighty direct and indirect influence in creating that smoko of heresy and sin which darken ed the gospel sun and the whole region of Christendom. In the third verse of this chapter it is said : “And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth." Wo think these locusts mean the Arabians or Saracens being Mohamcdans; and their coining out of the smoko means Calljomi ©totes. that a sovereign God would not have j permitted them to succeed as they did but for the smoke of heresy and siu in the visible church. It is not needful, brethren, to consid er minutely every part of this prophet ic description of the Mohamedans, as, perhaps, you do not doubt that these locusts are the Saracens. But there is one expression that makes some diffi culty. They, the Saracens, were com manded to hurt and torment only those men who bad not the seal of God on their foreheads [corrupt Christians], but they were not allowed to kill them. Now they did kill myriads of individ uals. The prophecy seems to . mean that the Saracens would desolate arid oppress the Greek and Latin churches and the nations in which they were es tablished, but they could not totally ex tirpate tbegi ; which has been verified by history. The fifth verse predicts that the Sar acens would torment men for “five months." Divine wisdom has seen proper to conceal from us the very day and hour when predicted events will take place. It is a question what par ticular event shall date the comprehen sive event —what particular event in the rise or fall of an e upire shall date the comprehensive event. This gives a degree of obscurity which properly belongs to prophecy. Hence nearly all interpreters differ with each other as to prophetic dates. But this difference should not in the least weaken the proof of tho Bible from the predictions it oontains. Here it is a question, when did the five months of Saracenic tor mejt begin. It is generally understood that in the prophetic style a day stands for a year; hence five months mean one hundred and fifty days or years. But when did they begin ? Perhaps the following is tho most satisfactory : “Mohamed first began publicly to prop agate his imposture A. D. 612 ; and A D. 762, just one hundred and fifty yeais afterwards, the city of Bagdad was builded, the Saracens ceased from their ravages, and became a settled peo ple ; they made no more rapid conquests, and obtained no further accession to their power, which thenceforth began to decline." Thus, nearly seven centu ries before tho event, John foretold the duration and the end of the toimenting victories of the Saracens. The Saracens then became rather un warlike and effeminate, and so contin ued for centuries. Then other dread ful actors appeared on the stage of the world. The prophetic description of theso begins Rev. 9 : 12th verse, “One wo is past ; aud behold there come two more woes hereafter. And tho sixth angel sounded [his trumpet] and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound at the great river of Eu> phrates. And the fi-ur angels were loosed." Doubtless John here a thou sand years before the eyent predicted the rise of the Turkish empire. These four angels are mentioned in Rev. 7th chapter as controlling the tempests. They were commissioned to restrain the Turkish armies until the Sovereign God determined to permit them to execute their wicked lust of conquest. Another explanation is this: The tour angels are the four Turkish king doms formed in the latter part of the eleventh century, in the regions bor dering on ihe Euphrates. Sometime after this and after the crusades tho Turks uniting together began their ravw ages and victories in the Roman em pire. In the fifteenth verse, John predicts that the Turks would be “prepared for an hour, aud a day, and a month, and a year, to slay the third part of men." As usual there is a difference here in the explanation of this prophetic time, which, however, should not in the least weaken our belief in the truth of the prediction. The following may be seen in the Fam ily Bible : “Counting 360 days a year, and 30 days in a month, the time of Tutkish slaughter would De 391 years and 15 days " Now the first conquest of the Turks over the Christians took place A. D. 1281; and the last success by which they extended their domin ions was A. D. 1672, being exactly 391 years from one to the other. So that one of their historians [Prince Cante mir] here divides his narrative, calling the former part, “the growth of the Othman empire;” the latter, “the de cay of the Othman empire.” Since that period they have had iittle success in any of their wars, and their power is so much weakened and straitened at pres ent by tho rival power of Russia, that it is not at all probable that they will ever recover their ascendency, or renew their conquests. Had we reoords of these events sufficiently exact we should no doubt find that tho hour or fifteen days was fixed widh the same punctuali ty by ihe spirit of prophecy. Another explanation made or adopt ed by Dr. Cunmiing is perhaps to be preferred. He counts for *he year 3651 days, the month 30 days ; then each day for a year, the time of Turk ish slaughter is 396 years aud 106 days. The Turks left Bagdad for con quest A. D. 1057, Jan. 18th, They captured Constantinople A. D. 1453, May 29th. I have not the means to verify these dates with exactness. But Gibbon, Vol. 5 : 512 records that about A. D. 1057, the empire was “suddenly assaulted by ail unknown race of Barbarians, who united the Scythian valor with the fanaticism oi | new proselytes, and the art and riches Jof a powerful monarchy. The myriads of Turkish horses ovorepread a frontier of six hundred miles from Tauris to Argeroum, and the blood of one hun dred and thirty thousand Christians was a grateful sacrifice to the Arabi an prophet ” This terrible invasion was led by the Sultan Togral, and may well be chosen to mark tho beginning of the slaughter of the Roman empire— a slaughter to continue 400 years. Next the Turkish lion, Alp Arslan, led the Mohamedan armies against the Christians. He was bravely fought by the Emperor Romanns Diogenes, who gained some great victories over the Turks ; but the Roman army at last was terribly destroyed by the Turkish horsemen led by the “Lion." Next in order is the great Sultan, Malek Shah, “who from the Chinese frontier stretched his immediate juris diction or fendatory sway to the west and south, as far as the mountains of Georgia, the neighborhood of Constan tinople, the holy city of Jerusalem, and the spicy groves of Arabia Felix." The time of slaughter embraces the crusades, occurring between A. D. 1096 and A. D. 1270, in which the Turks directly or indirectly destroyed millions of Christians. The time of slaying “the third part of men" embraces the wars of the mon ster Sultan Othman, Gibbon chapter 64. Orchan, Amurath tho First. It was under tbe reign of Amurath that the janigaries were instituted, and soon became tbe “terror of the nations." These were the stoutest and most beau tiful Christian youths, trained and payed to fight agaiost Christian coun. tries. This awful time embraced the reign of Bajazet I. called “tho lightning from the rap’dity of his destructive march." Iu the fourteen years of his reign he incessantly moved at the head of his armies, from Boursa to Adria nople, from the Danube to the Euphra tes ; he made gret conquests in Eu rope as well as in Asia, and especially at Nicopolis destroyed nearly one hun dred thousand Christians. Bajezefc threatened to subdue Germany and Ita ly and to feed his horse with a bushel of oats on the altar cf St. Peter at Rome. After his victory at Nicopolis he spent a day butchering in cold blood 10,000 Christian prisoners. This was the haughty Sultan that wrote to the Roman Emperor at Constantinople : “By the divine clemency, our invinci. ble cimcter has reduced to our obedH ence almost all Asia, with many anil largo countries in Europe, excepting on ly the city of Constantinople; for be yond the wallj thou hast nothing left. Resign that city ; stipulate thy reward; or tremble for thyself and thy unhappy people, at the consequences of a rash refusal." Ho pressed the city with war and famine, but was prevented from taking it by a savage stranger than himself, Tamerlane, the Mogul oon qlerer. In these four centuries of slaughter are the reigns of Mahomet 1., Amurath 11., early in fifteenth century. It wai Amurath that defeated the Christians in the bloody battle of Warna. In this period finally was the reign of Mahomet 11., who captured Constantinople, and whom Gibbon calls the “great destroy er.” In the conquest of two empires, twelve kingdoms and two hundred cit ies, he deserved the title Abaddon. He built at Adrianople “the watchtow er of the world," and extinguished ; n Constantinople the “last spark of the Roman empire." I will not now dwell on all the parts of the prophetic description of the Turks. But notice these two. Proph ecy said, the number of their horsemen would be “two hundred thousand thou sand history says the Turks some tiuje brought into the field of war six or seven hundred thousand horsemen. Prophecy said they wou’d kill the third part of men by “fire and smoke and brimstone history says the Turks used powder and artillery with great success, especially in the seige and aap ture of Constantinople. Thus end-d the time, not of the Turkish empire, but of their slaughter of “tbe third part of men ” Brethren, we naturally ask why did a Sovereign God permit the wicked Saracens and Turks, through so many centuries, to ravage and kill Christian peoples and profane the once famous Christian churches ? God answerS in the Bible. He es tablished his church, a visible catholic society. He exalted that church unto the heavens in privilege and glory. From time to time the church would provoke God by great sins. Then God, with divine compassion but with terri ble justice, would ehastise the church. God during tho old dispensation per mitted the Philistines, the Syrians, Babylonians and many others to invade, plunder and murder his people, because they had broken bis covenant and trans gressed bis laws. In the Bth chapter of Daniel we are told why the x\lmighty would give an army to Mohamed and the Caiipps to practice and prosper, to cast down the sanctuary aud the truth aud the stars of Christians to the ground and stamp upo*n them. It would be from the in dignatiou of God agaiost the visible church for great and continued sins. In Rev. 9 : 20, John tells us .why the Turk** would be permitted, during four centuiies, to slay the third part of men, chiefly Christians of the Roman empire. It was because thesq so called Christians worshipped devil3 and idols of gold and silver and brass aud stone and wood ; aud because they practiced murder and sorcery and theft. The Family Bible says, “The easts ern church, in whioh many corruptions first prevailed, was punished by the CALHOUN, GA„ SATURDAY, JULY 21. 1877. first woof the Saracens; and as this did not bring them to repentance, the second woof the Turks completed its ruin. But the Western church not re penting of her abominations will at length be overwhelmed with the third __ _ )) WO. We hurnbiy ask, when will be the end of the third and last wo ? the end of the seventh and last vial of divine wrath ? When will come the joyful time in which God will pour out his spirit on all his visible church and nev ermore hide his face from her, aod de liver her to her enemies? We think this Tuikish war is the beginning of the end ; not that it is the battle or war of Armageddon. In Rev. 16: 12, we read: “And the sixth angel pouired out his vial up* on the great river Euphrates and the water thereof was dried up.” Some apply this to Rome os Rome is called Babylon by John. Others apply it to the Turk'sh empire, and show hoiv the resources of that empire for many years have been dried up. It would make my discourse too lung fully to discuss this question. Let us consider the latter part of the 11th chapter of Daniel. For several verses preceding the 40th there is a prophetic description of the Roman anti-Christ; and in the 40th our atten tion is turned back to the rise of Mo hamed. “At the time of the end," says Dan iel, “shall the king oi the South [Mo hamed aud the Caiipps or Saracenio power] push at him [the Roman em* pire, eastern and western], and the king of the North [the Sultan, tho Turkish empire] shall come against him [the Roman] like a whirlwind, with chariots and with horsemen, and with many ships.” It would seem unlikely before the ovent that the Turks would come against tbe Roman empire with ships ; but Gibbon records the following fact to say nothing of other facts : “Tbe Turkish ignorance of navigation pro tected, for a while, the ingrorious safe ty of the [Roman] Emperor ; but no sooner had a fleet of two hundred ships been constructed by the hands of the captive Greeks than Alexins trembled behind the walls of his capital.” “And he shall enter into the coun tries and overflow and pass over. lie shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be over thrown." We have already seen that many countries of Europe, Asia and Africa were overthrown by the Turks. The “glorious land" here is Palestine. Gibbon says, “The most interesting conquest of the Seljukian Turks was that of Jeiusalem, which soon became the theatre of nations." Prophecy said : “But there shall escape out of his hand, even Edom and Mcab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.” History says, “The Turks were never able to subdue the Arabian tribes, but the Sultans have had to pay them an annual pension to protect the pilgrims and caravans to Mecca." “He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the coutries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Lybians and the Ethiopians shall, be at his steps.” History records the conquest of these countries by the Turks. “But tidings out of the east aod out of the north shall trouble him; there fore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away with many.” About 70 years ago, Sooft, in the Family Bible wrote ; “Some conject ure that the Persians, who border on the Turkish dominions to the east, and the Russians who lie north of them, wjll unite against the Turks; that in the land of Canaan the latter will fix their camp with great ostentation, as well as wage trie war with great fury ; and that there they shall receive such a defeat as shall end in the utter suhersion of their monarchy." “The word rendered ‘to make away,’ signifies to curse or to devote to utter destruction, and may intimate that the war would be on a religious account." This interpretation of the prephecy seems to be confirmed by tho news of the day. “He [the Sultan] shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas [the Blaok r.nd other seas] in the glo rious holy mountain." In or near Con stantinople in what had been an emi nent Christian or holy country. Or the Sultan will place bis last great camp between the Mediterranean and Dead seas, in the mountains of Juka. “And yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him." You see the daily news that none, not even Mohamedan countries outride 1 urkey proper, seem disposed to help ihe Turks. If England or any other country try to help they cannot save the Turkish ernpire from predestined ruin, a ruin richly deserved for many centurits of crime. Br thren, God has wisely kept from us the day and the hour when the events of unfulfilled prophecy will take place. But he has so predicted them that we may expect them ; and when they shall have taken place, we may know, if we dulv consider that the Bi ble did foretell them, aud is the Word of God. As raising Lazarus from the dead was a miracle of power, so prophecy is a miracle of knowledge —a miracle whose benefit redounds not to the age to whom the prophecy was first giveu, but to tbe age that considers the fuifillment. The predictions about Mohamedism —an im posture that has blighted many nations for nearly thirteen centuries —is a grand miracle of knowledge, whose chief ben efit is for those now living, who dilli gently study tbe prophecies and the History of the Sarace-.s and tbe Turks. Only a part of these prophecies re. main unfulfilled, and we imagine we can see almost to the glorious end. We may make mistakes, but our mistakes cannot shake the foundation of the Bible It is interesting to see in the religious pa pers that Christians in Europe, Asia and America are looking at this Turk ish war as the beginning of some great end—tbe end of that Mohamedan pow er that for ages has said : “Ye Chris tian dogs, the koran, tribute, or the sword." Let as study, with more industry, that Bible whose proofs become brighter as time rolls on ; let us strive more to walk in this heavenly light. TUE OLD SILVER DOLLAR . How dear to my heart are the coins of my childhood, "When fond recollection recalls them to view ; Dad’s scanty gifts in an occasional mild mood ; The hardly-gained pelf which my in fancy knew. The old-fashioned copper, with rust corroded ; The smooth-sided levy, the sixpenses small; The plastered quarters, by long use ero ded ; The old silver dollar, loved better than all ; The old silver dollar ; our dads’ legal dollar ; The bright, shining dollar, loved bet ter than all. 9 Its broad, gleaming disk I hailed as a treasure, The promised reward of long hours in the field ; To grasp its dear form was exquisite pleasure, The strongest’and keenest that mon ey cou'd yield, How ardent I seized it, with hands that were itching, And quick to the long pocket’s bot tom it fed Tfiere carefully guarded from wasteful bewitching, Till yielded at last to tbe circus man’s spell ; The old silver dolLr, our dads’ legal dollar ; The bright, shining dollar, that they loved so well. How good from the huckster’s grimed hand to receive it, As pav for our butter, our eggs, and our sass; The crispiest bill could not tempt me to leave it, Though the bank note detector pro nounced it first-class. Since now is discarded that loved legal tender, The tears of regret will unceasingly fall. As fancy reverts to its size and its splendor, I yearn for tbe dollar loved better than all ; The old silver dol.ar ; our dads’ legal dollar ; The bright, shining dollar, loved bet. ter than all. —— None Like Him. —There are a few mean men in Detroit, but they come here from the East, and as a rule they do not tarry long. The ’•egular Detroit'’ er is a good man, and if he has a fami* ly he is still better, as can be shown ev ery day in the week. At the Detroit and Milwaukee depot yesterday, as a la dy was about to get aboard the train, she said to the man who was loaded down with her parcels : Now, while I am gone, you must take up and beat all the carpets, and lay them again. Of course, he replied. And polish all the windows, rub off the furniture, and repaint the front steps. I will, dear. 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