Page 6 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
of faith in that age; and the crown which was

given to the rider, and his going forth

conquering and to make still further

conquests, the zeal and success with which the

truth was promulgated by its earliest

ministers. To this it is objected that the

ministers of Christ and the progress of the

gospel could not be properly represented by

such warlike symbols. But we ask, By what

symbols could the work of Christianity better

be represented when it went forth as an

aggressive principle against the huge systems

of error with which it had at first to contend?

The rider upon this horse went forth —

where? His commission was unlimited. The

gospel was to all the world.

VERSE 3. And. when he had opened the second

seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and