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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
very far from the Lord, and he has
withdrawn himself from them.”
Should it be said that our views of the moral
fall and spiritual dearth of the churches are
shown to be incorrect by the great revivals of
1858, the testimony of the leading
Congregational and Baptist papers of Boston
relative to these revivals would correct that
impression.
The Congregationalist, November, 1858, said:
“The revival piety of our churches is not such
that one can confidently infer, from its mere
existence, its legitimate, practical fruits. It
ought, for example, to be as certain, after such
a shower of grace, that the treasuries of our
benevolent societies would be filled, as it is
after a plentiful rain that the streams will
swell in their channels. But the managers of
