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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Appendix
prophecy are sometimes looked upon as

fanatics, because they believe that the second

advent of Christ is soon to take place, when all

the wicked will be destroyed and the

righteous saved. But we ask the candid reader

whether the man, who, in the face of all the

facts above stated, believes in the speedy

conversion of the whole world and the near

approach of the millennium, may not more

justly be regarded as a fanatic. While a few

thousand pagans in heathen lands are

receiving the gospel, millions in Christian

lands are turning away from it, and embracing

socialism, infidelity, and atheism; and among

these we find the educated, the scientific, and

so-called higher classes taking the lead. But

this need not surprise us; for Jesus himself

said respecting the last days, “Nevertheless