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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.


               world  she  has  votaries  bowing  before  her


               shrine-the mind of man. Her philosophy is to-


               day  studied  under  the  guise  of  modern


               writers; her ideas are instilled into the minds


               of  children,  from  the  kindergarten  to  the


               universities, and students graduate from the


               schools of the land knowing much more of the


               mythology  of  Greece  than  they  do  of  the


               religion of Jesus Christ; better acquainted with


               Greek  heroes  than  with  the  Man  of  Calvary.


               Greek learning still rules the world, and it will


               until the setting up of the everlasting kingdom


               of  God-till  the  stone  cut  out  without  hands


               shall fill the earth.




               As the Jews during the days of Alexander and


               his  successors  were  without  excuse,  so  the


               Israel of to-day has set before it the wisdom of
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