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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.

those subjects, but lingered on the soul-

thrilling description of the investigative

judgment.

The seventh chapter of Daniel reveals the

future of God’s people; not only the Hebrew

nation, but the true, the spiritual Israel. This

vision was given to Daniel in the first year of

the reign of Belshazzar, about 540 B. C. The

mere giving of this view bears the strongest

testimony to the results of Daniel’s education

when a youth, to his steadfastness of purpose,

and his growth in spiritual things. At the age

of eighty-five, after sixty-seven years of court

life, with all its allurements, and the natural

tendency of human nature to sink to a purely

physical existence, his eye of faith was so

undimmed that at the bidding of Michael,