Page 12 - 01 The Opening Vision

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ,

and of all things that he saw, the long period

within which those successive scenes were to

be realized was at hand. If proximity then

constituted a motive for heeding those

contents, how much more does it now! Every

revolving century, every closing year, adds to

the urgency with which attention is

challenged to the concluding portion of Holy

Writ. And does not that intensity of devotion

to the present, which characterizes our times

and our country, enhance the reasonableness

of this claim? Never, surely, was there a period

when some mighty counteracting power was

more needed. The Revelation of Jesus Christ,

duly studied, supplies an appropriate

corrective influence. Would that all Christians

might, in fullest measure, receive the blessing

of ‘them that hear the words of this prophecy,