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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.

arrayed with everything that art could

embellish or money and labor produce, to

make a spot pleasant to the sight and touch

and every bodily sense.

Such was Babylon, glowing in the light of the

Syrian sun, and fanned by the blandest

zephyrs that ever blew, when Daniel entered

to serve the long period of seventy years in

captivity. But he was a captive only to political

power. He served the Lord, and was spiritually

free. From this point through all the personal

experience of the prophet, and on through the

scenes opened to his mind by the spirit of

prophecy, the divine narrative runs. These

scenes and experiences are woven together in

this book into one connected whole, and the

spiritual and practical lessons to be drawn