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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
movements, or their exact equivalent, the

prophecy calls for. The line of argument

leading to these conclusions is so direct and

well-defined that there is no avoiding them.

They are a clear and logical sequence from the

premises given us.

When the application of Revelation 13:11-17

to the United States was first made, as early as

the year 1850, these positions respecting a

union of the churches and a grand Sunday

movement were taken. But at that time no sign

appeared above or beneath, at home or

abroad, — no token was seen, no indication

existed, that such an issue would ever be

made. But there was the prophecy, and that

must stand. The United States government

had given abundant evidence, by its location,

the time of its rise, the manner of its rise, and