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 the Tartars and Turks to Mahometanism, and the consequent establishment of the power of the Turkish sultans on the ruins of the caliphate. From the moment the Turkish sultans assumed the Mahometan turban, they constituted themselves the heads of the Mahometan religion, and were accepted as such by all true Mahometans. And when the Prophet continues, "All the earth was in admiration of the beast," he does but express in prophetic language what history records, that the Mahometan power became still more formidable in the eyes of all men; for the term, which in our version is here rendered by the word "admiration," would be more correctly translated by another, viz., "amazement:" that being rather the meaning of the Greek term, used by the Apostle, "." And so it is rendered in the Anglican version, "all the world wondered after the beast."

And well might it wonder, for the Mahometan empire was dead, and was alive again! And well might the consequence be what St. John describes as ensuing thereon, "And they adored the dragon, which gave power to the beast: saying who is like unto the beast, and who shall be able to fight with him?"

Stricken with terror, the nations of Christendom fell before the beast one after the