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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
been conspicuously manifest in the rise and

progress of this nation.

Governor Pownal, an English statesman, in

1780, while our Revolution was in progress,

predicted that this country would become

independent, and that a civilizing activity,

beyond what Europe could ever know, would

animate it; and that its commercial and naval

power would be found in every quarter of the

globe. He then speaks of the probable

establishment of this country as a free and

sovereign power as —

“A revolution that has stronger marks of

divine interposition superseding the ordinary

course of human affairs, than any other event

which this world has experienced.”