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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                            ~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

                                              Chapter 2-The Great Image
                   earthly powers. And so they will be, till all


               earthly  powers  shall  finally  yield  to  Him


               whose right it is to reign. And lo! the day of


               deliverance draws on apace.




               Into another city, not only Daniel, but all the


               children of God, from least to greatest, from


               lowest to highest, from first to last, are soon to


               enter;  a  city  not  merely  sixty  miles  in


               circumference,  but  fifteen  hundred  miles;  a


               city whose walls are not brick and bitumen,


               but precious stones and jasper; whose streets


               are  not  the  stone-paved  streets  of  Babylon,


               smooth  and  beautiful  as  they  were,  but


               transparent  gold;  whose  river  is  not  the


               mournful  waters  of  the  Euphrates,  but  the


               river of life; whose music is not the sighs and


               laments  of  broken-hearted  captives,  but  the


               thrilling paeans of victory over death and the
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