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Show REIGN OF THE I TURK JN EUROPE 1 reiS Salt Lake, Nov 25 Declaring that i MHttbo war now bolng waged against Tur-VflfWlwy Tur-VflfWlwy typifies the vengeance of God tm ,Jupon a nation that has been the M scourge of tho world, tho Rev L. S. fC Bowerman of the Immanual Baptist Jg church dellverod an eloquent sermon H before a large congregation yesterday S morning. Ho said in part: H Wo read with intense intorest flft the story of Paul's work In Asia fm Minor. The vision that came JM wherein the man Is standing and WM caving, "Come over into Macedon- iB ia and help us." Since the days JB- of Phillip and Alexander the great IB Macedon has occupied a large M place in tho world's history. The civilization that later centered in ft Constantinople as the capital of K" tho eastern empire Is, after all, Iff Grecian. Ijf Previously In this mystic book l we have tho vision ushered in by II the sixth trumpet; the 20,000 l horsemen the fire and brimstone III and smoke, the Blaylng of the third if part of mankind. The conquest of III theso was to continue for 391 ! years. ''The four angels of the 1 vision were tho four sultanicB of lr the Turkish hordes who had eet- Vtit tied In the oastorn empire" III Cruelty Incarnate. IH Tho Turk Is of Scythian origin, III descendant of Magog, tho son of lis Japheth. The story of their wars III in China and India Is such as to , III make the blood run cold. They aro the scourge sent to punish tho eastern empire for tho awful persecutions per-secutions and slaughter of tho I'aunclans, one of tho purest bod-S bod-S ' Christians that ever existed exist-ed Tho first victory of the Turks over the Christian of the eastern empire was the capture from the Greeks of their famous city of Ivutahl in 12S1 A. D. For 390 years It Is the Btory of murdorous conquest, of rapine, firo and desolation. deso-lation. In 1458 the city of Constantinople Con-stantinople was captured then up-upward up-upward through tho Balknn nations na-tions and into Poland. In 1CS3 the Turk was at tho gates of Vienna, Vi-enna, but was turned back by John Sobleskl, king of Polnnd and Europe saved from Moalom rule. From then until 1820 tho Turkish empire, bo far as prophecy Is concerned, con-cerned, remained unchanged. Justice Not Asleep. Tho sixth vial of wrath Is poured out upon this people In 1S20 comes a remarkable change. You have tho story of AH Pasha of Albania, Al-bania, of Princo YpsIIantI in Macedonia. Mac-edonia. Then camo the revolt of the GrcelCB. the Insurectlons In the east of the empire, the great earthquake at Alopoo and Antioch, the meeting of the Janizaries, tho great fire of Constantinople and the battle of Navarius In 1827 Greece was free. In 1S29 the power pow-er of the empire was broken, though not destroyed. From that period until today every ev-ery war, and there have been many, has weakened and plague and pestilence have added their horrors. The cruelty of tho monster mon-ster Abdul Hamid shocked tho world and alienated any possible sympathy on the part of mankind. He was rightly called the great as-Bassln," as-Bassln," and the well represented the culmination of Turkish atrocity. atroc-ity. Helped by Jealousy. The empire for years has only remained Intact because of the jealousies of the European powers. In the way in which nations had noL figured and upon which diplomats diplo-mats had not rockonod comes this laBt war, and we today see the Turk defending in forlorn hope his capital. His empire Is doomed and there will be few to do it revoronco Who shall question tho power of missions or theinfluenco of the missionary as we read the story or Japan, of China, India or Turkey Tur-key There will bo wars and rumors of war, tumults and revolutions until the great day at Armageddon Armaged-don But the world moves forward. Sin and righteousness strugglo to prevail. "Righteousness will cover cov-er tho earth as tho waters cover tho sea." |