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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.

kingdom, and so much of the true metal was

mingled with the alloy that an unusual

strength was developed. In other words, the

kingdom of Babylon was built and developed

in accordance with laws which were in

themselves divine, but since the greatest evil

lies near to and is a perversion of the greatest

good, so the perversion of the principles of the

government of heaven made the strongest of

earthly kingdoms. Built so that it was difficult

for beings who were watching the progress of

events to detect error, God, who never deals

arbitrarily with men or angels, not even with

Satan himself, allowed the Babylonian

kingdom to run its natural course, that the

world might have an object lesson and know

forever after that truth brings life, but that the