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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
“It was midnight darkness at noonday. ...

Thousands of people who could not account

for it from natural causes, were greatly

terrified; and indeed, it cast a universal gloom

on the earth. The frogs and night-hawks began

their notes.” — Dr. Adams.

“Similar days have occasionally been known,

though inferior in the degree or extent of their

darkness. The causes of these phenomena are

unknown. They certainly were not the result

of eclipses.” — Sears’s Guide to Knowledge.

“Almost, if not altogether alone, as the most

mysterious and yet unexplained phenomenon

of its kind in nature’s diversified range of

events, during the last century, stands the

dark day of May 19th, 1780, — a most

unaccountable darkening of the whole visible

heavens and atmosphere in New England, —