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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Appendix
monopolize the illustrative evidence of it.

Crimes of all sorts and sizes seem just now to

be ‘breaking out,’ like the measles, all over the

body social. The newspapers, if they give the

news at all, have to be darkened with the

wretched records of misdoings. We confess

that the dailies at the present time are not so

cheerful reading as might be. Suicides,

murder, and the whole catalogue of offenses

against God and man, are startlingly

prevalent. Is it symptomatic of some great

social disease, the seeds of which have long

been growing, but long hidden? Is there some

malign moral miasma in the air, some taint in

the blood, some great, though subtle, popular

error that has been silently conceiving sin, and

is at last bringing forth iniquity? Or is it only a

kind of spiritual contagion, or epidemic, like

the epizootic, for instance, among animals,