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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                          Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
                   the  nation  is  doomed;  for  it  will  thus  put


               itself in line with the religious despotisms of


               the  past;  and  the  cry  will  go  up  from  God’s


               suffering children, “It is time for thee, Lord, to


               work:  for  they  have  made  void  thy  law.”


               Psalms 119:126.




               And this work is not confined to America. In


               Switzerland, by an iniquitous application of a


               so-called “Factory Law,” in behalf of Sunday,


               the authorities have closed the large printing


               establishment of the Seventh-day Adventists,


               although state troops drill, and target practice


               is  performed,  on  Sunday,  with  all  the


               accompaniments  of  such  exercises,  in  the


               campus immediately in front of the building.


               This has been repeated in London, where the


               office of a Seventh-day Adventist paper, The
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