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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Appendix
which do not exist, and anticipating trouble
which never comes, there is, on the other
hand, such a thing as crying, “Peace, peace,”
when there is no peace, and shutting our eyes
to real danger till it is too late to guard against
it, and we find ourselves involved in
irretrievable calamity and loss. The wisest of
men has said, “A prudent man foreseeth the
evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass
on, and are punished.” Proverbs 22:3. Noah
was not an alarmist when he warned the
world of the approaching catastrophe of the
flood: nor Lot, when he warned the Sodomites
that an all-devastating storm of fire was
hanging over their doomed city; nor our Lord,
when he foretold the utter destruction of
Jerusalem, and gave his people directions how
to escape it. Let us not be diverted from the
real situation by the cry of “alarmist,” nor
