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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
our societies are bewailing the feebleness of
the sympathy and aid of the churches.
“There is another and sadder illustration of
the same general truth. The Watchman and
Reflector recently stated that there had never
been among the Baptists so lamentable a
spread of church dissension as prevails at
present; and the sad fact is mentioned that
this sin infects the very churches which
shared most largely in the late revival. And the
still more melancholy fact is added that these
alienations date back their origin, in most
cases, to the very midst of that scene of
awakening. Even a glance at the weekly
journals of our own denomination will evince
that the evil is by no means confined to the
Baptists. Our own columns have, perhaps,
never borne so humiliating a record of
