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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
religious cast, — a thing which the framers

of our Constitution were careful to exclude

from it. They not only ask that the Bible, God,

and Christ shall be recognized in the

Constitution, but that it shall indicate this as “a

Christian nation, and place all Christian laws,

institutions, and usages of the government, on

an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental

law of the nation.”

Of course, appropriate legislation will be

required to carry such amendments into

effect, and somebody will have to decide what

are “Christian laws and institutions.” From

what we learn of such movements in the past

in other countries, and of the temper of the

churches of this country, and of human nature

when it has power suddenly conferred upon it,

we look for no good from this movement.