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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
Let, now, an ecclesiastical organization be

formed by these churches; let the government

legalize such organization, and give it power

(a power which it will not have till the

government does grant it) to enforce upon the

people the dogmas which the different

denominations can all adopt as the basis of

union, and what do we have? — Just what the

prophecy represents, — an image to the papal

beast, endowed with life by the two-horned

beast, to speak and act with power.

And are there any indications of such a

movement? The preliminary question — that

of the grand union of all the churches — is

now profoundly agitating the religious world.

Chas. Beecher, in his sermon at the dedication

of the Second Presbyterian church, Ft. Wayne,

Ind., Feb. 22, 1846, before referred to, said: —