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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
with equal justice and propriety may a
majority at any time dictate the adoption of
still further articles of belief, until our
Constitution is but a text-book of a sect,
beneath whose tyrannical sway all liberty of
religious opinion will be crushed.”
Petitions and remonstrances are both being
circulated with activity; and shrewd
observers, who have watched the movement
with a jealous eye, and heretofore hoped it
would amount to nothing, now confess that it
“is formidable.” No movement of equal
magnitude of purpose has ever sprung up and
become strong, and secured favor so rapidly
as this. Indeed, none of equal magnitude has
ever been sprung upon the American mind, as
this aims to remodel the whole framework of
our government, and give to it a strong
