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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.

conversion from that day, and forces were set

in operation which paved the way for the

return of the Jews a few years later.

Again the heathen monarch is brought to

acknowledge the power of heaven’s King.

When Daniel interpreted the dream, worldly

wisdom and the learning of the Babylonian

schools fell before the simple gospel teaching

as carried out by faithful mothers in Israel.

When the three Hebrews were saved from the

heat of the furnace, the principles of God’s

government-true Protestantism, as it would

be called to-day,-were proclaimed before the

nations of the earth.

It was only a partial appreciation of these

principles which Nebuchadnezzar at first

gained; nevertheless it led to the decree that