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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
when the events recorded in the foregoing

verses are to be fulfilled. And, as the world

estimates loss and profit, it costs something to

be teachers of these things in these days. It

costs reputation, ease, comfort, and often

property; it involves labors, crosses,

sacrifices, loss of friendship, ridicule, and, not

unfrequently, persecution. And the question is

often asked, How can you afford it? How can

you afford to keep the Sabbath, and perhaps

lose a situation, reduce your income, or it may

be even hazard your means of support? O

blind, deluded, sordid question! O what

shortsightedness, to make obedience to what

God requires a matter of pecuniary

consideration! How unlike is this to the noble

martyrs, who loved not their lives unto the

death! No; the affording is all on the other side.

When God commands, we cannot afford to