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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
is construed to be “disturbance,” if they are
even seen anywhere at work, or even if it is
known that they are at work anywhere,
though unseen or unheard. If no other way
appears for detection, they are searched out
by ministers or church-members, or the police
acting under their direction. Then follow
arrest, conviction, and penalty by fine,
imprisonment, or the chain-gang. Up to Jan. 1,
1896, ninety arrests of this kind had been
made, some of them under circumstances of
great oppression and cruelty, and prisoners
had served an aggregate of nearly fifteen
hundred days in jail and chain-gangs. And
from the windows of some of these jails these
very seventh-day keepers, who were there
confined in “durance vile,” for not resting on
Sunday, could behold on Sundays train-loads
of workmen going to their labor, picnickers to
