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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
conveying the best idea of the manner in
which this government has arisen. Mr. G. A.
Townsend, in his work entitled The New
World Compared with the Old, page 635, says:
“In this web of islands — the West Indies —
began the life of both [North and South]
Americas. There Columbus saw land; there
Spain began her baneful and brilliant Western
empire; thence Cortez departed for Mexico, De
Soto for the Mississippi, Balboa for the Pacific,
and Pizarro for Peru. The history of the United
States was separated by a beneficent
Providence far from this wild and cruel
history of the rest of the continent, and like a
silent seed we grew into empire; while empire
itself, beginning in the South, was swept by so
interminable a hurricane that what of its
history we can ascertain is read by the very
