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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 11 – The Two Witnesses
Society was organized (1804); then

followed the American Bible Society (1817);

and these, with their almost innumerable

auxiliaries, are scattering the Bible

everywhere. Since that period, the Bible has

been translated into nearly two hundred

different languages that it was never in before;

and the improvements in paper-making and

printing within the last seventy-five years

have given an impetus to the work of

scattering Bibles, which is without a parallel.

The Bible has been sent to the destitute,

literally by shiploads. One vessel carried out

from England fifty-nine tons of Bibles for the

emancipated slaves in the West Indies. The

Bible has risen to be respected by almost

every one, whether saint or sinner. Within the

present century, translations of the Scriptures