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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
order, to secure such an amendment as will

indicate that this is a Christian nation, and

place all Christian laws, institutions, and

usages in our government on an undeniable

legal basis in the fundamental law of the

nation, specially those which secure a proper

oath, and which protect society against

blasphemy, Sabbath-breaking, and

polygamy.”

By Sabbath-breaking is meant nothing else

but Sunday-breaking. In a convention of the

friends of Sunday, assembled Nov. 29, 1870, in

New Concord, Ohio, one of the speakers is

reported to have said: “The question [of

Sunday observance] is closely connected with

the National Reform Movement; for until the

government comes to know God and honor his

law, we need not expect to restrain Sabbath-