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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