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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
or repealed. But Sunday laws interfere with

the conscience of the observer of another day,

and for that reason cannot “bear upon all

alike.” And no true Christian can make his

obedience to God depend upon the permission

of his fellow men. It may be said again, In a

country like the United States, do not

majorities rule? and must not their decisions

be obeyed? And the answer again is, Yes, in

everything but questions of conscience, but

never there. “Render... unto Caesar the things

that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that

are God’s.” Men may legislate to guard the

mutual rights of all members of society, but no

further; and in this they will never infringe

upon the rights of any one’s conscience; for a

“good” conscience (1 Peter 3:21) will never

invade the rights of others, like the polygamy