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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
speedy arrival of the Messiah in the clouds

of heaven.”

The Voice of the Church, by D. T. Taylor, pp.

342-344, speaks as follows concerning the

wide diffusion of the advent sentiment: —

“In Wurtemburg, there is a Christian colony

numbering hundreds, who look for the speedy

advent of Christ; also another of like belief on

the shores of the Caspian; the Molokaners, a

large body of Dissenters from the Russian

Greek Church, residing on the shores of the

Baltic — a very pious people, of whom it is

said, ‘Taking the Bible alone for their creed,

the norm of their faith is simply the Holy

Scriptures’ — are characterized by the

‘expectation of Christ’s immediate and visible

reign upon earth.’ In Russia, the doctrine of

Christ’s coming and reign is preached to some