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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
the electric fluid, and a painter of the sun; it

bathes itself in the subterranean waters, while

it is warmed with the central fires; it opens

upon the two infinities those two windows, —

the telescope on the infinitely great, the

microscope on the infinitely little; and it finds

in the first abyss the stars of heaven, and in the

second abyss the insects, which prove the

existence of a God. It annihilates time, it

annihilates distance, it annihilates suffering; it

writes a letter from Paris to London, and has

the answer back in ten minutes; it cuts off the

leg of a man — the man sings and smiles.” —

Le Petit Napoleon.

But if we take the other standpoint, and refer

the increase of knowledge to an increase of

Biblical knowledge, we have only to look at the

wonderful light which, within the past sixty