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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
settling like an incubus on the breasts of the

timid, and drinking up the energies of the

weak, that lukewarmness, division, anarchy,

and desolation are distressing the borders of

Zion.”

In 1844 the Religious Telescope used the

following language: “We have never

witnessed such a general declension of

religion as at the present. Truly, the church

should awake, and search into the cause of

this affliction; for as an affliction every one

that loves Zion must view it. When we call to

mind how ‘few and far between’ cases of true

conversion are, and the almost unparalleled

impenitence and hardness of sinners, we

almost involuntarily exclaim, ‘Has God

forgotten to be gracious? or is the door of

mercy closed?’”