Page 12 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
essence in the most deplorable manner. An

enormous train of superstitions was gradually

substituted for true religion and genuine

piety. This odious revolution proceeded from

a variety of causes. A ridiculous precipitation

in receiving new opinions, a preposterous

desire of imitating the pagan rites, and of

blending them with the Christian worship,

and that idle propensity which the generality

of mankind have toward a gaudy and

ostentatious religion, all contributed to

establish the reign of superstition upon the

ruins of Christianity. Accordingly, frequent

pilgrimages were undertaken to Palestine,

and to the tombs of the martyrs, as if there

alone the sacred principles of virtue and the

certain hope of salvation were to be acquired.

The reins being once let loose to superstition,

which knows no bounds, absurd notions and