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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Appendix
Appendix

1 — Resemblance Between Our Own Times

and the French Revolution

In the books both of Daniel and the Revelation

distinct reference is made to that abnormal

national experience known as “The French

Revolution.” (See Daniel 11:36-39; Revelation

11:7-10.) The time when the principles of

irreligion and infidelity were given full

opportunity to bud and blossom and bear

fruit, that all the world might judge of their

nature; when men were left to show to what

deeds of darkness the carnal heart would lead,

unrestrained by any principles of

righteousness and truth, was most

appropriately noted in prophecy. And the

descriptions given of the character of the last

days by the same pen of inspiration, are such