Page 89 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
Then will the world’s dream of carnal

security be effectually broken. Kings, who,

intoxicated with their own earthly authority,

have never dreamed of a higher power than

themselves, now realize that there is One who

reigns King of kings; and the great men behold

the vanity of all earthly pomp, for there is a

greatness above that of earth; and the rich

men throw their silver and gold to the moles

and bats, for it cannot save them in that day;

and the chief captains forget their little brief

authority, and the mighty men their might;

and every bondman who is in the still worse

bondage of sin, and every freeman, — all

classes of the wicked, from the highest to the

lowest, — join in the general wail of

consternation and despair. They who never

prayed to Him whose arm could bring

salvation, now raise an agonizing prayer to