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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                                         Appendix
                   was  made  chaplain  to  Edward  VI,  having


               refused a bishopric. On Mary’s accession, he


               went to Frankfort and preached to the English


               exiles. Thence he went to Geneva, where he


               was  much  esteemed  by  Calvin,  to  whose


               doctrines he was much attached. He returned



               to  Scotland,  where  he  died  in  1572,  after


               rendering the Reformation triumphant in his


               native land.



               John  Bunyan,  the  most  popular  religious


               writer  in  the  English  language,  was  born  in


               1628. He was a tinker by trade, and therefore


               received  but  a  meager  education.  His  mind


               was  little  drawn  toward  religious  matters


               until his enlistment as a soldier, during which


               one of his comrades, who had taken his post,


               was  killed.  This  he  looked  upon  as  a  direct


               interposition  of  Providence,  and  after  his
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