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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
result could not have been different. When a
person refuses the light, he necessarily shuts
himself in darkness; when he rejects truth, he
inevitably forges the shackles of error about
his own limbs. Loss of spirituality — a moral
fall — must follow. This the churches
experienced. They chose to adhere to old
errors, and still promulgate their false
doctrines among the people. The light of truth
must therefore leave them. Some of them felt
and deplored the change. A few testimonies
from their own writers will describe their
condition at that time.
The Christian Palladium of May 15, 1844,
spoke in the following mournful strain: “In
every direction we hear the dolorous sound,
wafting upon every breeze of heaven, chilling
as the blast from the icebergs of the north,
