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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
agitated by this awful convulsion. Other

earthquakes may have been as severe in

particular localities, but no other one of which

we have any record, combining so great an

extent with such a degree of severity, has ever

been felt on this earth. It certainly supplies all

the conditions necessary to constitute it a

fitting event to mark the opening of the seal.

The Darkening of the Sun. — Following the

earthquake, it is announced that “the sun

became black as sackcloth of hair.” This

portion of the prediction has also been

fulfilled. Into a detailed account of the

wonderful darkening of the sun, May 19, 1780,

we need not here enter. Most persons of

general reading, it is presumed, have seen

some account of it. The following detached