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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
was a blessing in the days of Christ to those

who received it, why was it not equally so in A.

D. 1843?

It may be objected that those who engaged in

this movement were disappointed in their

expectations; so were the disciples of Christ at

his first advent, in an equal degree. They

shouted before him as he rode into Jerusalem,

expecting that he would then take the

kingdom; but the only throne to which he then

went was the cross; and instead of being

hailed as king in a royal palace, he was laid a

lifeless form in Joseph’s new sepulcher.

Nevertheless, they were “blessed” in receiving

the truths they had heard.

It may be objected further that this was not a

sufficient blessing to be marked by a

prophetic period. Why not, since the period in