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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.

It is little wonder that the yoke was hard to

bear and that the king was unrelenting. It was

a time of trouble, a foretaste of the great time

of trouble through which the people of God

will pass before the second coming of the

Saviour. Both periods are called by the same

name,-the time of Jacob’s Trouble,-by the

prophet Jeremiah. Under these trying

circumstances the Jews were obliged to

preach the gospel which they once had the

opportunity to give with power from

Jerusalem.

Groaning beneath oppression, they had taught

of the coming Messiah, the deliverer; they

taught righteousness by faith, and the

everlasting gospel, the hour of God’s

judgment, the fall of Babylon, and the