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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.”
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