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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                          Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
                   Catholics without professing allegiance to a


               pontiff on the other side of the Atlantic.”



               In favor of this union, or rather, confederacy,



               of  churches,  journals  are  published,  and


               speakers are pleading to-day. Thus there are


               indications  that  at  no  distant  day  such  a


               church  will  be  seen,  not,  indeed,  raised  up


               through the instrumentality of a Luther, but


               rather  through  the  operation  of  the  same


               spirit  that  inspired  a  Fernando  Nunez  or  a


               Torquemada.  This  being  done,  another


               instalment  of  the  prophecy  will  be


               accomplished, and the image will be formed.


               And inasmuch as the United States is the only


               country where such a move can be looked for,


               and as events are here openly tending to such


               a  result,  the  evidence  is  hereby  still  further
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