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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

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Such words from such a source should cause

the most thoughtless to pause and consider.

Mark the expressions: The spirit of darkness

spreading through Christendom, superstition

and unbelief increasing, the present age far

surpassing that of Voltaire in infidelity,

atheism taking the place of God, science

becoming atheistic, eminent literary men

teaching Positivism; the masses becoming

pervaded with these ideas, and even

Protestant ministers denying the fundamental

facts of the gospel, — these are the prominent

features of the times.

Professor J. Cairus, D. D., of Berwick, England,

draws the following picture of the present

generation: “The advance, so rapid and

wonderful, of science and art, and the

progress of education and the diffusion of