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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
first, and that they record a complete
accomplishment of the prediction?
Another inquiry naturally follows: Has the
United States “come up” in a manner to meet
the specifications of the prophecy? Let us see.
A short time before the great Reformation in
the days of Martin Luther, not four hundred
years ago, this Western Hemisphere was
discovered. The Reformation awoke the
nations, that were fast fettered in the galling
bonds of superstition, to the fact that it is the
heaven-born right of every man to worship
God according to the dictates of his own
conscience. But rulers are loth to lose their
power, and religious intolerance still
oppressed the people. Under these
circumstances, a body of religious heroes at
length determined to seek in the wilds of
