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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                         Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
                   this? What must an unbelieving world think


               about a Christianity that can’t bring forth any


               more  fruit?  And  have  we  no  care  for  the


               multitudes of souls going down to perdition


               every year while we all sit and look on? And


               this  country  of  ours,  where  will  it  be  in  the



               next ten years, if we don’t awake out of sleep?”



               The  second  angel’s  message  is  addressed  to


               those organizations where the people of God


               are mainly to be found; for they are specially


               addressed as being in Babylon, and at a certain


               time are called out. The message applies to the


               present generation; and now God’s people are


               to be looked for, certainly, in the Protestant


               organizations  of  Christendom.  But  as  these


               churches depart farther and farther from God,


               they at length reach such a condition that true


               Christians  can  no  longer  maintain  a
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