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was Mohammed and the Caliphs who reigned after him. They must therefore be considered as the locust-king, Abaddon; and no more appropriate name could be applied to them than Destroyer; wherever they went destruction followed in their train.

The prophecy so far relates to the origin of Islamism, and to the rise, progress, and conquests of the Saracens. What remains relates to the Turks, who have been the principal supporters of the Imposture since the overthrow of the empire of the Saracens. Elizabeth you may

read from the 13th to the 15th verse.

Elizabeth. "And the sixth angel sounded 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 in (or, at, by, or near) the great river Euphrates, and the four angels were loosed." Who are these four angels, mother?

Mother. The four angels bound by the river Euphrates, are generally understood, by those who have made the prophecies their study, as representing four divisions of the empire of the Seljukian Turks, who inhabited the country

bordering on the great river Euphrates. They were divided into four distinct governments, each division having its own Sultan or king, towards the close of the eleventh Century. For a long time, they were, from various causes, prevented from extending their conquests beyond the countries in the vicinity of the river Euphrates. Thus, they might be said to be bound, in or at that river. But, towards the close of the thirteenth Century, those hindrances were removed out of their way, so that they began to spread the terror of their arms over the surrounding countries. Then, the four angels may be said to have been removed.

Samuel. The sixteenth verse says, "the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand." Was the army of the Turks so large as this?

Mother. Gibbon, in his history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, states that the army of the Turks was proudly numbered by millions; and that their camp was six hundred miles in length. You can judge whether this bears any comparison to the number mentioned in the text.

Elizabeth.

Mother, the seventeenth verse

says that the horses, or those that sat on them, had " breast-plates of fire and of jacinth and of brimstone." What does that mean, mother?

Mother. Most of the soldiers in their armies rode upon their horses, and their dress has always been distinguished by the colors of scarlet, which appears like fire, of blue, which is the color of jacinth, and of yellow, which is the color of brimstone.

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Caroline. What does that mean where it "the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions, and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone?" How could fire and brimstone come out of the horses mouths?

Mother. The Turks were among the first who turned to account, in their wars, the invention of gunpowder, Cannons were employed by Mohammed II. in his wars against the Greek empire. It was by this means, that he took Constantinople. Nothing had before appeared in the world like the Turkish artillery. Mohammed had a cannon so large that it required seventy yoke of oxen and two thousand men to draw it. Each side of this great cannon, there was another almost as large. A long row of Turkish cannons, were pointed against the walls

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of Constantinople. Fourteen batteries thundered at once, upon as many different parts of the city. On one of these batteries were placed one hundred and thirty cannons, which were all fired at once. The camp and the city, the Greeks and the Turks, were completely covered with a cloud of smoke. The design of the prophecy seems to have been to describe the appearance, rather than the reality; for the prophet says he saw them in the vision. looking upon the Turkish army, through this cloud of smoke, little else but the horses' heads could be seen. To a person looking on from a distance, it would appear as if the mouths of the horses were continually belching forth fire and smoke. And the smoke of the gunpowder would fill the atmosphere, to a great distance around, with the smell of brimstone.—Peter, you may read the nineteenth verse.

Peter. "For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt."

Mother. I told you, a little while ago, that the tail of a beast, in prophecy, is an emblem of false doctrine. This means the same as the

tails of the locusts, which were like scorpions. But, they are compared with serpents, having heads. The Turks suffer the hair on the tails of their horses to grow very long. They have always been in the habit of tying a knot in the end of these long tails, which has the appearance of a serpent's head. The Turks were animated with the same wild fanaticism as the Saracens. They did more injury by their false doctrines than by their conquests. Wherever they went, the Koran triumphed over the Gospel.

From the account which I have given you, my dear children, it cannot be doubted that the rise, progress, and cousequences of Mohammedanism, are clearly foretold in the word of God. We must therefore conclude that, for wise purposes, God saw fit to give wonderful success to the author and supporters of this cunning Im posture. In doing so, he only made use of the wicked designs of ungodly men, to punish the apostasy of his professing people. You will also find in the fulfilment of these prophecies a most undeniable evidence of the divine origin of the Holy Scriptures. No being but God, in whose Infinite Mind all things are continually present, could so exactly describe these events, so many ages before they happened.

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