Roebuck on Russia's Designs in the Eastern Question

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 22, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 17

Roebuck on Russia's Designs in the Eastern Question

In the Prophetic Messenger, of London, England, under date of Jan. 1, 1880, we find this anecdote of the late Mr. Roebuck, which shows how the Eastern Question is understood by leading statesmen in England: “His denunciations of the tactics of the Opposition to embarrass the government during the recent crisis of the Eastern Question are still vividly remembered. On one occasion, leaning with one hand on his stick, and pointing the well-known finger at Mr. Gladstone, he said: ‘The right honorable member of Greenwich speaks of Russian humanity. Is he the only statesman who does not know that the great desire of the Czar is to transfer his palace from the dreary, misty, and frosty regions of the North to the beautiful banks of the Bosphorus?’”