The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

544FOR THE LATTER CHAPTER, UNDER THE "HOUR, DAY, MONTH,YEAR" PROPHECY, AS PART OF THE SIXTH TRUMPET, JOSIAHLITCH WORKED OUT AN APPLICATION OF THE TIME PROPHECY,TERMINATING TURKISH INDEPENDENCE IN AUGUST, 1840.LITCH'S VIEW CAN BE FOUND IN FULL IN HIS THE PROBABILITYOF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST ABOUT A.D. 1843(PUBLISHED IN JUNE, 1838); AN ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY(PUBLISHED IN THE SPRING OF 1840; A SECOND EDITION, WITHHISTORICAL DATA IN SUPPORT OF THE ACCURACY OF FORMERCALCULATIONS OF THE PROPHETIC PERIOD EXTENDING TOTHE FALL OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, WAS PUBLISHED IN 1841);AND AN ARTICLE IN SIGNS OF THE TIMES AND EXPOSITOR OFPROPHECY, AUG. 1, 1840. SEE ALSO ARTICLE IN SIGNS OF THETIMES AND EXPOSITOR OF PROPHECY, FEB. 1, 1841; AND J. N.LOUGHBOROUGH, THE GREAT ADVENT MOVEMENT (1905 ED.), PP.129-132. THE BOOK BY URIAH SMITH, THOUGHTS ON DANIELAND THE REVELATION, REV. ED. OF 1944, DISCUSSES THEPROPHETIC TIMING OF THIS PROPHECY ON PAGES 506-517.FOR THE EARLIER HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE ANDTHE DECLINE OF THE TURKISH POWER, SEE ALSO WILLIAMMILLER, THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND ITS SUCCESSORS, 1801-1927(CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND: UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1936); GEORGE G.S. L. EVERSLEY, THE TURKISH EMPIRE FROM 1288 TO 1914(LONDON : T. FISHER UNWIN, LTD., 2D ED., 1923); JOSEPH VONHAMMER-PURGSTALL, GESCHICHTE DES OSMANNISCHENREICHES (PESTH: C. A. HARTLEBEN, 2D ED., 1834-36), 4 VOLS.;HERBERT A. GIBBONS, FOUNDATION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE,1300-1403 (OXFORD: UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1916); ARNOLD J.TOYNBEE AND KENNETH B. KIRKWOOD, TURKEY (LONDON,1926).ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 340. WITHHOLDING THE BIBLE FROM THEPEOPLE.--THE READER WILL RECOGNIZE THAT THE TEXT OFTHIS VOLUME WAS WRITTEN PRIOR TO VATICAN COUNCIL II,WITH ITS SOMEWHAT ALTERED POLICIES IN REGARD TO THEREADING OF THE SCRIPTURES.