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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
lightnings that devastated it. The growth of
English America may be likened to a series of
lyrics sung by separate singers, which,
coalescing, at last make a vigorous chorus, and
this, attracting many from afar, swells and is
prolonged, until presently it assumes the
dignity and proportions of epic song.”
A writer in the Dublin Nation, about the year
1850, spoke of the United States as a
wonderful empire which was “emerging,” and
“amid the silence of the earth daily adding to
its power and pride.”
In Martyn’s History of the Great Reformation,
Vol. IV, p. 238, is an extract from an oration
delivered by Edward Everett on the English
exiles who founded this government, in which
he says: —
