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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
green days. The double pole-star gives his
yellow. In some, the different suns belonging
to the same system are variously colored. Says
Dr. Burr, in his Ecce Coelum, p. 136: “And, as if
to make that Southern Cross the fairest object
in all the heavens, we find in it a group of more
than a hundred variously colored red, green,
blue, and bluish-green suns, so closely
thronged together as to appear in a powerful
telescope like a superb bouquet, or piece of
fancy jewelry.”
And what of the age of these glorious bodies?
A few years pass away, and all things earthly
gather the mold of age, and the odor of decay.
How much in this world has perished entirely!
But the stars shine on as fresh as in the
beginning. Centuries and cycles have gone by,
kingdoms have arisen and slowly passed
