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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
their flaunted cries of liberty, intermingled
with the groans of the slave, are in the
political.”
During the time of the great Irish revival of
1859, the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church of Ireland held its
session in Belfast. Of a strange scene that
occurred in that Assembly the Belfast News
Letter of September 30, said: “Here in this
venerable body of ministers and elders, we
find two ministers openly giving each other
the lie, and the whole General Assembly
turned into a scene of confusion bordering
upon a riot.”
This is a sad and deplorable picture; and what
has been the course of events, and the
tendency in the deportment of professed
Christians, since that time? There is
