Page 54 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
Birds ceased to sing, and all the barnyard

fowls

Roosted; the cattle at the pasture bars

Lowed, and looked homeward; bats on

leathern wings

Flitted abroad; the sounds of labor died;

Men prayed, and women wept; all ears

grew sharp

To hear the doom-blast of the trumpet

shatter

The black sky, that the dreadful face of

Christ

Might look from the rent clouds, not as he

looked

A loving guest in Bethany, but stern

As justice and inexorable law.”

The next most notable dark day, compared

with that of 1780, was in 1762. Of this, Mr.