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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                       Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
                   fallen as a race; men have come up. No great


               disaster met the race at the start. The creative


               decree of God was fulfilled, and any theory of


               atonement must be one which shall meet the


               fact that man was created at the lowest point,


               and, as I believe, is, as to his physical being,



               evolved from the animal race below him; but


               as to his moral and spiritual nature, is a son of


               God,  a  new  element  having  come  in,  in  the


               great movement of evolution at the point of


               man’s appearance.”



               When the great facts which alone account for


               the existence of sin in our world, and for all the


               anomalies  of  the  present  state,  are


               denominated “a fabulous disaster;” when it is


               avowed that man has not fallen, that the race


               did not meet the disaster of the introduction


               of sin by disobedience in the beginning, and
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