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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
8000 miles in diameter; but the sun’s

diameter is 885,680 miles. In size it is one and

a half million times larger than our globe; and

in the matter of its substance, it would balance

three hundred and fifty-two thousand worlds

like ours. What immensity is this!

Yet this is far from being the largest or the

brightest of the orbs which drive their shining

chariots in myriads through the heavens. His

proximity (he being only some ninety-five

million miles from us) gives him with us a

controlling presence and influence. But far

away in the depths of space, so far that they

appear like mere points of light, blaze other

orbs of vaster size and greater glory. The

nearest fixed star, Alpha Centauri, in the

southern hemisphere, is found, by the

accuracy and efficiency of modern