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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                                         Appendix
                   us to answer in the affirmative; for the same


               causes  are  operating  everywhere  to-day


               which a hundred years ago were at work in


               France. The same names and principles may


               be  heard  and  seen  all  about  us.  Let  us  first


               notice some of the more prominent elements



               which produced the French Revolution.



               1. Spiritualism. — Says Samuel Smucker in his


               Memorable Scenes in French History, p. 116:


               “We  find  in  the  records  of  that  period,


               materials and events which prove that then it


               was that the impostures of modern spiritual


               rappers and mediums were first practiced, in


               precisely  the  same  way  and  for  the  same


               results as they are at the present day. ... Count


               Cagliostro enabled Cardinal Rohan to sup with


               the  deceased  D’Alembert,  with  the  king  of


               Prussia, and with Voltaire, all dead some years
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