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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
idle ceremonies multiplied almost every

day. Quantities of dust and earth brought from

Palestine, and other places remarkable for

their supposed sanctity, were handed about as

the most powerful remedies against the

violence of wicked spirits, and were sold and

bought everywhere at enormous prices. The

public processions and supplications by

which the pagans endeavored to appease their

gods, were now adopted into the Christian

worship, and celebrated in many places with

great pomp and magnificence. The virtues

which had formerly been ascribed to the

heathen temples, to their lustrations, to the

statues of their gods and heroes, were now

attributed to Christian churches, to water

consecrated by certain forms of prayer, and to

the images of holy men. And the same

privileges that the former enjoyed under the