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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
“Did they look for a retired spot, inoffensive

from its obscurity, safe in its remoteness from

the haunts of despots where the little church

of Leyden might enjoy freedom of conscience?

Behold the mighty regions over which, in

peaceful conquest — victoria sine clade —

they have borne the banners of the cross.”

Will the reader now look at these expressions

side by side, — “coming up out of the earth,”

“emerging amid the silence of the earth,” “like

a silent seed we grew into empire,” “mighty

regions” secured by “peaceful conquest.” The

first is from the prophet, stating what would

be when the two-horned beast should arise;

the others are from political writers, telling

what has been in the history of our own

government. Can any one fail to see that the

last three are exactly synonymous with the