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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 3 – The Seven Churches (continued)
friend, partaking of the cheerful and social

meal! Mind with mind, holding free and

intimate converse! And what a festal scene

must that be where the King of glory is a guest!

No common degree of union, no ordinary

blessing, no usual privilege, is denoted by this

language. Who, under such tender entreaty

and so gracious a promise, can remain

indifferent? Nor are we required to furnish the

table for this exalted Guest. This he does

himself, not with the gross nutriment of earth,

but with viands from his own heavenly

storehouse. Here he sets before us foretastes

of the glory soon to be revealed. Here he gives

us earnests of our future inheritance, which is

incorruptible, undefiled, and fadeth not away.

Verily, when we shall comply with the

conditions, and receive this promise, we shall

experience the rising of the day star in our