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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                          Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
                   the object of the two should be one and the


               same.”



               The  Church  Advocate,  in  March,  1870,



               speaking of the formation of an “Independent


               American Catholic Church,” a movement now


               agitated in this country, said: —



               “There  is  evidently  some  secret  power  at


               work, which may be preparing the world for


               great events in the near future.”



               A  Mr.  Havens,  in  a  speech  delivered  in  New


               York a few years ago, said: —




               “For my own part, I wait to see the day when a


               Luther  shall  spring  up  in  this  country,  who


               shall found a great American Catholic Church,


               instead of a great Roman Catholic Church; and


               who  shall  teach  men  that  they  can  be  good
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