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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
Dark Ages, which furnished only a travesty

of Christianity; not to pagans, who in their

ignorance know not God, nor to those who in

Christian lands deny him, is the credit of this

progress due. Indeed, it is the very spirit of

equality and individual liberty inculcated in

the gospel of Christ when preached in its

purity, which unshackles human limbs,

unfetters human minds, invites them to the

highest use of their powers, and makes

possible such an age of free thought and

action, in which these wonders can be

achieved.

Of the marvelous character of the present age,

Victor Hugo speaks as follows: —

“In science it works all miracles; it makes

saltpeter out of cotton, a horse out of steam, a

laborer out of the voltaic pile, a courier out of