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NOT A PLEASANT SEAT

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

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NOT A PLEASANT SEAT.

The situation in Russia is we think about as aptly expressed as language can put it, in the following sentence from the Christian Union of March 3:—
“The Tsar has got tired of trying to prevent the escape of steam from the boiler by sitting on the safety valve, and has honored a substitute by asking him to sit there instead.”
This substitute, Gen. Melikoff, has already experienced one actual attempt on his life, with plenty of threats for the future.