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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
contentions and ecclesiastical litigations as
during the last few months.”
A Presbyterian pastor of Belfast, Ireland
(1858), used the following language
respecting the then recent revivals in this
country, according to the New York
Independent of December, 1859: “The
determination to crush all ministers who say
a word against their national sin [slavery], the
determination to suffocate and suppress the
plain teachings of Scripture, can be persisted
in and carried out at the very time these New
York Christians are expecting the religious
world to hail their revivals. Until the
wretchedly degraded churches of America do
the work of God in their own land, they have
no spiritual vitality to communicate to others;
their revivals are in the religious world what
