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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

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blossomed into all its horrid reality. The

relations of the different classes of society

were completely changed. The monarchy was

overthrown, and an infidel republic

established on its ruins. The king and queen

were beheaded.

Alison, Vol. IV, p. 151, says: “The confiscation

of two thirds of the landed property in the

kingdom, which arose from the decrees of the

convention against the emigrants, clergy, and

persons convicted at the revolutionary

tribunals, ... placed funds worth above

£700,000,000 sterling at the disposal of the

government.”

Titles of nobility were abolished. It was a

conflict between the rich and the poor,

between capital and labor. The motto of the

Revolution was, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”