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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
the Revolutionary Tribunals, ... placed funds

worth above £700,000,000 sterling at the

disposal of the government.” — Alison, Vol. IV,

p. 151.

When did ever an event transpire, and in what

country, fulfilling a prophecy more completely

than this? As the nation began to come to

itself, a more rational religion was demanded,

and the heathen ritual was abolished. The

historian thus describes that event: —

“A third and bolder measure was the

discarding of the heathen ritual, and

reopening the churches for Christian worship;

and of this the credit was wholly Napoleon’s,

who had to contend with the philosophic

prejudices of almost all his colleagues. He, in

his conversation with them, made no attempts

to represent himself a believer in Christianity,