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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 15 – The Seven Last Plagues
and yet astronomy reveals enough to fill all
hearts with admiration. From our little world
we pass out to our sun ninety-three million
miles away; on to its nearest neighboring sun,
nineteen thousand million miles away; on to
the great double pole-star, from which it takes
light in its electric flight of one hundred and
ninety-two thousand miles a second, forty
years to reach our world; on past systems,
groups, constellations, till we reach the great
star Alcyone, in the Pleiades, shining with a
power of twelve thousand suns like ours!
What, then, must be the grand center around
which these myriads of shining orbs revolve!
Well may the song be raised, “Great and
marvelous are thy works.” But the song covers
another field also — the field of God’s
providence and grace: “Just and true are thy
ways, thou King of saints.” All the dealings of
