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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
their frolic, hunters to their game, and

railroad cars to their traffic. But these, it is to

be observed, were not keepers of the seventh

day. National Reformers, years ago, professed

to smile at the apprehensions of those who

keep the seventh day, that their work would

result in persecution. Now they only smile a

little more grimly and call for stricter laws —

for the seventh-day people.

Most of the State governments have in their

constitutions, or in their adopted “Bill of

Rights,” provisions guaranteeing the fullest

religious liberty; and the inconsistency of

legislating on religious questions, under these

circumstances, is at once seen; while the

treachery of oppressing people for opinion’s

sake, in such lands, is keenly felt. Every

conceivable invention is therefore resorted to,