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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of

clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong,

and partly broken.’ Verse 42. How in any other

way could you so strikingly represent the

facts? For more than fourteen hundred years,

this tenfold division has existed. Time and

again men have dreamed of rearing on these

dominions one mighty kingdom. Charlemagne

tried it. Charles V tried it. Louis XVI tried it.

Napoleon tried it. But none succeeded. A

single verse of prophecy was stronger than all

their hosts. Their own power was wasted,

frittered away, destroyed. But the ten

kingdoms did not become one. ‘Partly strong,

and partly broken,’ was the prophetic

description. And such, too, has been the

historic fact concerning them. With the book

of history open before you, I ask you, Is not

this an exact representation of the remnants