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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
when the Bible was discarded, and the

existence of the Deity denied, as the voice of

the nation.

The historian thus describes this great

religious change: —

“It was not enough, they said, for a regenerate

nation to have dethroned earthly kings, unless

she stretched out the arm of defiance toward

those powers which superstition had

represented as reigning over boundless

space.” — Scott’s Napoleon, Vol. I, p. 172.

Again he says: —

“The constitutional bishop of Paris was

brought forward to play the principal part in

the most impudent and scandalous farce ever

enacted in the face of a national

representation. ... He was brought forward in