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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
principal states that have lost territory are
Turkey, Mexico, Austria, Denmark, and the
Netherlands.”
In their bearing upon the prophecy before us,
these statements are worthy the particular
attention of the reader. During the half
century named, twenty-one governments
disappeared altogether, and only three new
ones arose. Five lost in territory instead of
gaining. Only five besides the United States
added to their domain, and the one which did
the most in this direction, added only a little
over half a million of square miles; while the
United States added nearly two million square
miles. Thus the American government added
over fourteen hundred thousand square miles
of territory, during the fifty years named,
more than any other single nation, and over
