ny interference even from France. The Congress
handed over to England's keeping Turkey. England, then, can make Turkey
do her bidding by force of arms sustained by the very precedent already
set. Thus will Israel-England open up Palestine for Christian
settlement. The Mahommedans will murmur and resist to have the holy
places taken from them, but no matter; England, when the time comes, will
enforce it. It is just here that Turkey and England will dispute, and in
each dispute England will find a reason for drawing the lines a little
tighter around poor Turkey.

The contestants on one side at the great battle of Armageddon, you
remember, are the dragon, the beast, and Anti-Christ. Now what people is
represented by the term dragon? We answer, the Pagan nations and
authorities, just as the Chinese have on their standards to-day a dragon,
as we have the eagle. The Mahommedans, Hindoos, Brahmins, Buddhists, and
all Pagan idolaters, are summed up in the word dragon. At present,
England is tolerant with the subjects and adherents of these different
worshippers and religions; but the time will come when she will no longer
tolerate the same; thus will they arraign themselves against her in the
battle of Armageddon. This will come to pass as the gradual destruction
of Mormonism in our country. This system has been fortified by law; now
laws are being arraigned against it. It is now only tolerated, and in a
short time it will be wiped out of existence.

The final battle referred to in the text is to occur at a place called in
the Hebrew tongue Armageddon, the literal meaning of which is at the
mount of Megido. In olden times there was a city called Megiddon; it
stood in what is now called the great plain of Esdraelon--a plain that
lies midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Mediterranean. It was
also called Jezreel. The prophet Hosea speaks of this place, battle, and
time, all by this one word. Referring to the time when the children of
Judah and of Israel are gathered together under one head in their own
land, he says, "For great shall be the day of Jezreel" (Hos. i. 11). It
is spoken of in the Scriptures and history as the valley of Jehoshaphat,
because here Jehoshaphat, the King of Judah, gained a great victory; for
here the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel, as He will in the
coming battle. Joel iii. 12 says, referring to this coming struggle,
"Let the heathen be waked up and come to the valley of