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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
From a lengthy article in the Lansing (Mich.)

State Republican in reference to the Cincinnati

Convention, held in 1872, we take the

following extract: —

“Now there are hundreds and thousands of

moral and professedly Christian people in this

nation to-day who do not recognize the

doctrine of the Trinity, — do not recognize

Jesus Christ the same as God. And there are

hundreds and thousands of men and women

who do not recognize the Bible as the

revelation of God. The attempt to make any

such amendment to the Constitution would be

regarded by a large minority, perhaps a

majority, of our nation as a palpable violation

of liberty of conscience. Thousands of men, if

called upon to vote for such an amendment,

would hesitate to vote against God, although