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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.

that at last victory was his. But the moment of

his quiet resting was the calm preceding his

greatest struggles. So quiet were the nations

that the lifting of a hand in rebellion in any of

its most distant parts would send a throb to

the center, which would be answered by the

return of the legions.

Then it was that in the little town of

Bethlehem Ephrath, where Mary and Joseph,

peasants of the hill town of Nazareth, had gone

to be taxed in obedience to the command of

this same Augustus, was born a Saviour, even

Christ the Lord. The very condition which

caused Satan to exult were the conditions

most favorable to Christ when he came to

tabernacle among men. He whom Satan had

opposed since the rebellion in heaven; he, the