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THE STORY OF DANIEL THE PROPHET
Stephen N. Haskell
“But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.
neither have we obeyed;” “the curse is poured
upon us;” “all this evil is come upon us, yet
made we not our prayer before the Lord our
God, that we might turn from our iniquities;”
“we obeyed not his voice;” “we have sinned,
we have done wickedly;” “because for our sins
and for the iniquities of our fathers,” “behold
our desolations;” “we do not present our
supplications before thee for our
righteousnesses.”
Before the Father we have one, even Christ,
who “hath borne our griefs and carried our
sorrows,” “who his own self bare our sins in
his own body.” Daniel was a representative of
Christ, and he had lived so close to God, and
knew him so intimately, that the spirit which
distinguished Christ from all others was
