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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                          Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
                   counterfeit by the completer substitution of


               the true.”



               There are several guess-roads through which



               we may look for the intent of this language;


               but  inasmuch  as  they  all  arrive  at  one


               conclusion,  this  conclusion  is  neither


               ambiguous nor doubtful; it is simply that the


               Protestant  Church  shall  become  really


               established,  as  the  Roman  Catholic  now  is


               practically. This is confirmed by the very next


               sentence, which reads: —



               “What  we  propose  is  nothing  of  a  sectarian


               character. It will give no branch of American


               Christians any advantage over any other.”




               Professor  Blanchard  undertakes  to  give  a


               definition of what they mean by a “union of


               church and state,” as follows: —
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