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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Appendix
country, according to the prophecy of
Revelation 13. Its principles and spirit found
congenial soil in France in the Revolution. But
if what then appeared contributed in any
manner to produce the state of society which
then existed, what must be its tendency to-
day?
2. Infidelity. — Mr. Anderson, in The Annals of
the English Bible, p. 494, says: “Never let it be
forgotten that before the Revolution of 1792,
the promoters of infidelity in France are
stated to have raised among themselves, and
spent, a sum equal to £900,000 in one year, —
nay, again and again. — in purchasing,
printing, and dispersing books to corrupt the
minds of the people and prepare them for
desperate measures.”