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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
thus of the effect of the movement, should it
succeed: —
“But, independent of the question as to what
extent we are a Christian nation, it may well be
doubted whether, if the gentlemen who are
agitating this question should succeed, they
would not do society a very great injury Such
measures are but the initiatory steps which
ultimately lead to restrictions of religious
freedom, and to commit the government to
measures which are as foreign to its powers
and purposes as would be its action if it should
undertake to determine a disputed question of
theology.”
The Weekly Alta Californian, of San Francisco,
March 12, 1870, said: —
“The parties who have been recently holding a
convention for the somewhat novel purpose
