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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
have been considered by all believers in the

Bible as among the fundamental truths of

revelation. As an illustration, we quote the

following from the National Baptist of Sept. 6,

1883. It is from a reply by Mr. Beecher to J. S.

Kennard, D. D., who had criticized some of Mr.

B.’s views and utterances. He says: —

“I am a cordial Christian evolutionist. I do not

agree, by any means, with all of Spencer — his

agnosticism — nor all of Huxley, Tyndall, and

their school. They are agnostic; I am not,

emphatically. But I am an evolutionist; and

that strikes at the root of all medieval and

orthodox modern theology, — the fall of man

in Adam, and the inheritance by his posterity

of his guilt, and, by consequence, any such

view of atonement as has been constructed to

meet this fabulous disaster. Men have not