Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 292, 1 October 1891 — The Future Time of Trouble. [ARTICLE]

The Future Time of Trouble.

())i Ot;fober Bi!i, 1878, a correspondcnt \vriting to the ' ChrĪßtia/i Union from Consta-ntinople says: — ,c When we consider ihe di/!icul,tles whieh now beset this feeble and governinent, • thc mily wonder is thal .it 'ean stand for a dav. Aside frosrthe tundes debt of $4,uj)on whieh it pays no ]nterest, it has an enormous floating debt representing ail the exp?nses of the w T ar; its employees are unpaid; its army has not been disbanded or even reduced; and its papēr money ha.s becpjji% almost worthless. The people have lost heart. and expect every rday some 118w revolucion or a renewal of the law. The KOvernmerit does nct hnow whieh to distrust most, its fricnds or its enem:es." All of Russi.'\ 5 s movements since * 1878 havē been in one direction, to secure a water v»av for her fleet through the Dardanelles, and also to nbtain a road way through to the lndies. Kvory movement to secure - an outlet- for hei' fleet - fc.reboding greater pi:essure *.he Tur)dsh government īn the direction of its expu!sion from tbe soil of Europe. The r oecupatiojn of Europe by the E!iglisli in ISS;>, furuishes another step to\vard the inevitable resuit, and an excui?e for a movement at any time on the part of Uu&sia, wliieh the N. V ; Luhp<nuknt t vcn-

tures to eail "the beginning of the eni" - We qu'ote thebpiriionofthe Baiiy News, June, 1883, viv: "Whether we like it or not the Ottom&n E»iyire is dying fast, nnd as Russia is the only power eapahle of taking its plaee in regions. it is usei less to lament what is iuevitable. All races and crecds eomplain bitterly of the systeiii under whieh iiiey live, but none perhaps suflfer more than the Turks themselves." ln the ParKS Temps of May 31, 1803, we are enabled to obtain a: view of the prevalent 'opinion in France„uponN:he Turkish qustion, i ih these words: <4 Mr. Gladstone i by taking Egypt, has not only lost i the good France, but has re-opehed the Eastern Question, and furj|ished Russia with a pretext for accoa)43lishing her immeiise projects, the last stēp in whieh will be the con.quest of British India." Ttius with a-prophetic eye. men of all nationalities have seen ai. 11 written their opinions, and pubiished them to the world, pointing out with strange accuracy, events whieh were to take plaee at no distant date. Th.e views of these writers āre on the eve of its fulfillment; the wnr-elouds are gatliering fast; the two uggressive powers of Europe, tbe Fraiik and th'e Cossack have formed ,a c<s-partnevship,-that suits well the feelings and cbaracteristics of both races. There is but one rosu't from this combination, a disruption of the peaee of Europe, and the beginniiig of that terrible war described in a few words in Dan. 12:1, ' ; such as never \vas since there was a nation even to that same time." (To be Continued). !