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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                          Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
                   corporations  created  by  the  state,  and


               amenable to it. The state is responsible to God


               for  the  conduct  of  these  creatures  which  it


               calls  into  being.  It  is  bound,  therefore,  to


               restrain them from this as from other crimes,


               and  any  violation  of  the  Sabbath  by  any



               corporation                     should                work              immediate


               forfeiture of its charter. And the Constitution


               of  the  United  States,  with  which  all  State


               legislation  is  required  to  be  in  harmony,


               should be of such a character as to prevent any


               State  from  tolerating  such  infractions  of


               fundamental moral law.



               “3.  Give  us  in  the  national  Constitution  the


               simple acknowledgment of the law of God as


               the supreme law of nations, and all the results


               indicated  in  this  note  will  ultimately  be


               secured.  Let  no  one  say  that  the  movement
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