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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

impartially, according to their improvement

or neglect of the opportunities offered them?

But it is not alone nor chiefly his connection

with the Chaldean monarchy, the glory of

kingdoms, that perpetuates the memory of

Daniel, and covers his name with honor. From

the height of its glory he saw that kingdom

decline, and pass into other hands. Its period

of greatest prosperity was embraced within

the limits of the lifetime of one man. So brief

was its supremacy, so transient its glory. But

Daniel was entrusted with more enduring

honors. While beloved and honored by the

princes and potentates of Babylon, he enjoyed

an infinitely higher exaltation, in being

beloved and honored by God and his holy

angels, and admitted to a knowledge of the

counsels of the Most High.