"As to the excellence of the city. Why, is not this to be the place of marshaling on the day of judgment, where the gathering together and the appointment will take place? Verily Makkah [Mecca] and Al Madina have their superiority by reason of the Ka'abah and the prophet,--the blessing of Allah be upon him and his family!--but, in truth, on the day of judgment both cities will come to Jerusalem, and the excellencies of them all will then be united."--_Le Strange, "Palestine under the Moslems," p. 85._ [Illustration: MODERN JERUSALEM "He shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain." Dan. 11:45.] Thus Moslem doctrinal teaching and tradition both point out Jerusalem as the rallying place of Moslems before the end. Again and again in recent years, as the pressure has threatened the Turkish hold on Constantinople, the thoughts of Moslems have turned toward Jerusalem as a possible capital. A few years ago a Seventh-day Adventist missionary in Constantinople wrote to his home board: [Illustration: THE MOSQUE OF OMAR Situated in Jerusalem, on Mt. Moriah, the site of Solomon's Temple.] "Within the past few months quite a company of people from the Transcaucasus district have come to Ismid,--old Nicodemia,--bringing all they possess with them. Some of them possess considerable wealth. When asked if they were going to settle in Ismid, they replied that they would settle nowhere permanently at present. They stated that they had come to be prepared to go with their leader when he left Constantinople to go to Jerusalem." Wherever the capital may first be set up following the forsaking of Constantinople,--and Turkish authorities, we are told, have discussed a number of possible locations in Asia Minor,--there stands the ancient prophecy as to the eventual seat of the king of the north, "He shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain." Following that, what comes? The prophecy declares, "Yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him." What Comes When Turkey Falls The fury of his goings forth "utterly to make away many," the moving of his capital from one place to another, avail nothing in the end. "He shall come to his end, and none shall help him." The suggestion of the prophecy is that this power has hitherto been helped to stand. Here again every suggestion of the prophetic language finds its response in history. Through these later years of the time of the end the Ottoman Empire has been helped to stand, by either one power or another, or by some combination of powers. The late Lord Salisbury, while premier of Britain, thus stated the reasons for this policy of helping Turkey: