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 ened war. BETWEEN THE CZAll AND THE SULTAN. 207 ly convenient, because he was ill-prepared for an chap. immediate encounter. Therefore, without yet go- XJI " ing to a rupture, the Turkish Government exerted itself to make ready for war. In States religiously Religions constituted, the preparation for war is begun by thereat" 1 preaching it ; and now in Europe, in Asia, and in Africa, wherever there were Turkish dominions, the Moslems were called to arms by a truculent course of sermons. In the churches of Russia there was a like appeal to the piety of the mul- titude. Of course the members of the two dis- puting Governments were much under the in- fluence of temporal motives ; but by the people of both Empires the war now believed to be impend- in" was regarded as a war for Religion.