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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.

withdrew from Babylon. But the Persian army

did not come. History says that Cyrus was

stopped by the death of a sacred white horse,

which was drowned in crossing a river. Cyrus

set his men to digging channels for the river,

spending one year in this way. Prophecy says,

“The walls of Babylon shall fall. My people, go

ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every

man his soul.… And lest your heart faint, and

ye fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the

land; a rumor shall both come one year, and

after that in another year, shall come a rumor.”

And so it was; one spring the rumor came, but

the army failed to appear. The careless and

unbelieving scoffed, but to the believing this

was an opportune time. The next spring the

rumor came again, but there was no time then