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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
disobey. And if we are asked, How can you
afford to keep the Sabbath, and do other
duties involved in rendering obedience to the
truth? we have only to ask in reply, How can
you afford not to do it? And in the coming day,
when those who have sought to save their
lives shall lose them, and those who have been
willing to hazard all for the sake of the truth
and its divine Lord, shall receive the glorious
reward promised in the text, and be raised up
to shine as the firmament, and as the
imperishable stars forever and ever, it will
then be seen who have been wise, and who on
the contrary, have made the choice of
blindness and folly. The wicked and worldly
now look upon Christians as fools and
madmen, and congratulate themselves upon
their superior shrewdness in shunning what
they call their folly, and avoiding their losses.