PROPHECY AND THE WAR.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1069, 23 May 1878, Page 3

PROPHECY AND THE WAR.

A correspondent of the New Zealand Times writes :—" I suppose I shall not be assuming too much when I state that the English nation is a Christian nation. Grantiilc tins, L suppose it will nut he denied that as Christians they belicvo the Bi: le to he true. Sow I would suggest to those who are desirous of knowing the issue of the preEuropean crisis that they should carefully study their Bibles, more es'ic.-ially the prophetic parts. They wiil there find that England will preserve a strict neutrality. In the year 1701, nearly 200 years ago, a curtain Robert Fleming published a work called the " Key to the. Apocalypse," in which he sketched out what from his point of view, and from a careful study of the Holy Scriptures, would be the leading events likely to happen in Europe during the two centuries from the time of his writing to 1!H)0. Owing to the extraordinary fulfilment of his interpretations of prophecy, this book created a very great sensation in 1543, fur certain occurrences in that memorable year were printed by him in 1701. The work has been several times reprinted ; the latest issue was in the end of 1877. Home discussion is going on in the English Press with reference to it, as this year, 1878, is mentioned in it for the collapse of the Turkish Empire. It has also been pointed out that had Fleming taken fractions of years as well as whole years into his calculations, he would have hit the very day, and not only the year, when certain events took place. Y» r ith this improved method of calculation, the 20th June of this year will see the death of Turkey and the ushering in of a new order of things in the East. " in conclusion, I may say that it is the opinion of those who have studied and are studying the world's politics with the Biblical cue, that England will not ally herself for aggressive purposes with any power ; that she will very shortly take peaceable possession of Constantinople and the Holy Land, and assume the protectorate of Egypt. Meantime Russia anc 1 Austria join in mortal coinhat, and eventually all the European Continental Powers are drawn into one of the most fearful wars that ever cursed this globe. Russia and her allies will be victorious, and then she will turn her attention to wiping out the British Empire, in which attempt she will be frustrated."