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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
does not contemplate sufficiently practical
ends.”
No less significant is the fact that the Sunday
agitation is appearing in other countries
simultaneously with the Sunday movement in
America. Who can explain the fact that Sunday
seems everywhere coming to the front, except
on the ground that we have reached the time
pointed out in prophecy when such a
movement should be seen? The Chester (Eng.)
Chronicle of July 9, 1881, reported a meeting
of three thousand persons in Liverpool in
favor of closing all public houses on Sunday.
The Christian Statesman of July 22, 1880, gave
information from England to the effect that a
“Working-man’s Lord’s-day Rest Association”
had been formed there, and that two of
England’s prime ministers, Beaconsfield and
