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THE STORY OF DANIEL THE PROPHET
Stephen N. Haskell
“But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.
The wisdom of God in choosing Palestine as
the home of the Jews is recognized more and
more as history progresses. There was no
mistake in the location, and there was no
lowering of the standard set for that nation. In
the days of Roman supremacy, as in the days
of Solomon, it was the divine will that Israel
should be the light of the world. They were
intrusted with the sacred oracles of truth, and
each nation was brought to them as to a
fountain of living water. Had the Hebrew race
been true to its appointed duty, the history of
the whole world would read entirely different.
Rome came to Jerusalem-came because sent
of God, but the well was a cracked and leaky
cistern, and the soul-thirst of the nation could
not be quenched. As a result, Rome enslaved
