Page 16 - 17 The Work of the Mystery of Iniquity

THE STORY OF DANIEL THE PROPHET

Stephen N. Haskell

“But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.

population of the capital, and a vast majority

elsewhere, women as well as men, danced and

sang with joy in accepting the announcement.

This was atheism-the logical result of the

position taken in Alexandria when Christians

assumed the garb of pagan philosophers.

God’s Word was treated as a product of the

human mind. Atheism in the individual is

likewise the result of so treating the

Scriptures.”

Still further quotations from the history of

those times will show how completely God

was rejected, and the worship of the human

intellect was substituted.

One day “the doors of the Convention were

thrown open to a band of musicians, preceded

by whom the members of the municipal body