Show CRESCENT NT AND AND CROSS Its It's just years e rs since II 11 took Constantinople and finished the empire of or Constanino Constantino Con Con- in the cast east in Jn that years ears the world has lias progressed beyond all accounts S Since then the new new world has hah been found und mid peopled 11 0 our ow own great republic hus s been created an and advanced to the first pla place rc among among nations hut but Constantinople Constantino Constantino- pIe pic is but lut a little ahead of what hat it was when it went under the dominion of the Turks A dispatch a l. l day or two since said that one B Bulgarian officer had promised his men that the they would celebrate mass in the mosque of St. St Sophia That is is tho the wonderful church which is so graphically graphically cally described by r Wallace in The flie Prince of India And so on that night when Constantinople Constantino Constantino- pie fell the cross was taken down from it and the advanced and d duri all those years crescent al during rig g years the tho call to prayer has gone out from that old church If the tho Bulgarians carry out their purpose tomorrow the cross will be replaced upon it an ana and anda a bell will call the people to worship It is not worth speculating upon except e to think that after years vears while the thc world has b been en 1 transformed in ill the west while great gleat nations have grown U up in Europe and nd while on this continent continent conti conti- nent neat our oui own r republic has taken form forni while north of us another little c ern empire ipire ire is advancing rapidly Constantinople has stood still under the ban an of that same crescent AI And cl if the expectations arc are carried out and the city falls before the advancing alli allies s it will be bc a la sign to o. o all Christ Christians ans that the thc beginning o of the end ha has pome Q 4 ic a and those in Jerusalem Jeru Jeru- salem if they watch will perhaps see sec sec- seea seca a a new and wonderful light shining down own on that cross which marks the thc place where the Savior was crucified where the light of the world went out in the throes of- of ofa a c earthquake but which is being slowly rekindled rekindled re rc- re- re kindled on those sacred heights tro When that conquest was completed 4 43 years ago the ei city y was given over to murder and rapine and lust We hope with th the thc return of the tho cross that none of of- oft t those lOse scenes will be enacted re-enacted but that hat the influence which started first from the Prince of Peace will govern the conquerors If it does docs and an enlightened government is established there all aU believes believers in the truths that that the Savior tan tun when on earth carti ought to take ch new hopes t th the thc end of vi violence on earth is a ap ai rod d that thata a reign of reason is to suc succeed ced |