Page 56 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
fall of rain, accompanied with a profuse

quantity of fine, black particles, in appearance

much like sulphur, both in smell and quality. A

sheet of clean paper held out in the rain was

rendered quite black wherever the drops fell

upon it; but when held near the fire, it turned

to a yellow color, and, when burned, it fizzed

on the paper like wet powder. So black did

these powdery particles turn everything upon

which they fell, that even the river was

covered with a black froth, which, when

skimmed off the surface, resembled the lather

of soap, with this difference, that it was more

greasy, and its color as black as ink. At seven

in the evening the air was more clear. This

phenomenon was observed throughout a vast

region of country; and though various

conjectures were indulged in as to the cause of

so extraordinary an occurrence, the same