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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
We need make no response; for those who

now render this decision will soon themselves

reverse it, and that with terrible though

unavailing earnestness.

Meanwhile, it is the Christian’s privilege to

revel in the consolations of this marvelous

promise. A conception of its magnitude can be

gathered only from the stellar worlds

themselves. What are these stars, in the

likeness of which the teachers of

righteousness are to shine forever and ever?

How much of brightness, and majesty, and

length of days, is involved in this comparison?

The sun of our own solar system is one of

these stars. If we compare it with this globe

upon which we live (our handiest standard of

measurement), we find it an orb of no small

magnitude and magnificence. Our earth is