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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

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think that there can be no danger because all

do not see it; for St. Paul has warned us that

“when they shall say, Peace and safety; then

sudden destruction cometh upon them.” 1

Thessalonians 5:3.

But we need offer no apology for ourselves in

this particular; for the strongest utterances

we put on record are simply those we find in

the secular press of the day. Even so cautious

a paper as the Chicago Evening Journal, in its

issue of Aug. 26, 1874, under the heading “The

Reign of Crime,” drew the following picture of

the times, which no one can say have been

growing better since that time: —

“If Mr. Beecher used to be rather soft on the

doctrine of ‘total depravity,’ we suspect he

may have got more light on this point by this

time. But Brooklyn does not by any means