PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. THE BOOK SOCIETY, 28, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND BAZAAR, SOHO SQUARE. ONE PENNY. 20601 1884 f. 1. f.l. ASIATIC URKEY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. F all the countries of the world few, if any, have so great an interest for the thoughtful as Asiatic Turkey. Its provinces abound in the sites of ancient cities, empires have risen, flourished, and decayed within what are now its precincts; mighty hosts have been marshalled to battle upon its plains; God, the Omnipotent, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, has walked along its roads and taught in its streets-in fact, whether viewed from the standpoint of Biblical research, on account of its antiquarian remains, or for its historical associations, it is a land claiming the attention of all those who seek to drink of the waters flowing from the fountain of knowledge. At the present moment popular attention is |