here stands the ancient
prophecy as to the eventual seat of the king of the north,

"He shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the
glorious holy mountain."

Following that, what comes? The prophecy declares,

"Yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him."

What Comes When Turkey Falls

The fury of his goings forth "utterly to make away many," the moving of
his capital from one place to another, avail nothing in the end. "He
shall come to his end, and none shall help him."

The suggestion of the prophecy is that this power has hitherto been
helped to stand. Here again every suggestion of the prophetic language
finds its response in history. Through these later years of the time of
the end the Ottoman Empire has been helped to stand, by either one power
or another, or by some combination of powers. The late Lord Salisbury,
while premier of Britain, thus stated the reasons for this policy of
helping Turkey:

"Turkey is in that remarkable condition in which it has now
stood for half a century, mainly because the great powers of
the world have resolved that for the peace of Christendom it is
necessary that the Ottoman Empire should stand. They came to
that conclusion nearly half a century ago. I do not think they
have altered it now. The danger, if the Ottoman Empire should
fall, would not merely be the danger that would threaten the
territories of which that empire consists; it would be the
danger that the fire there lit should spread to other nations,
and should involve all that is most powerful and civilized in
Europe in a dangerous and calamitous contest. That was the
danger that was present to the minds of our fathers when they
resolved to make the integrity and independence of the Ottoman
Empire a matter of European treaty, and that is a danger which
has not passed away."--_Mansion House speech, Nov. 9, 1895._

The veteran premier stated the fear of modern statesmen that Turkey's
fall would involve all civilization in a calamitous conflict. The
prophecy pictures just such a catastrophe, in these words:

"He shall come to his end, and none shall help him. And at that time
shall Michael stand up, the great Prince which standeth for the children
of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was
since there was a nation even to that same time."

What modern statesmen have seen impen