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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.

Example is a powerful factor in the promotion

of the Christian life. “Be ye followers of me,”

says Paul, “even as I also am of Christ.” 1

Corinthians 11:1. He exhorts Timothy to be an

“example of the believers.” 1 Timothy 4:12.

What higher standard can be raised to attain

unto, than is shown in Daniel’s relation to

God? for it is said of him that he was a “man

greatly beloved.” Such was the emphatic

testimony borne from God by the angel

Gabriel to Daniel, coming as he did

immediately from the court of heaven and the

presence of God. The occasion on which these

words were first spoken, shows what relation

the man thus addressed maintained to God,

and God to him. It was when the prophet,

burdened with anxiety in regard to a previous

vision which he had not understood, appealed