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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
respect to the remarkable physical
phenomena everywhere manifesting
themselves, as they seem so plainly to indicate
that all the courses of nature are disturbed,
and that the earth itself is waxing old in
anticipation of the time when it shall vanish
away. Within a few years past, how many
unnatural visitations of storm and fire and
flood have wrought ruin in different localities,
and awakened forebodings of fear in the
hearts of men in general. Witness the Chicago
fire, the Wisconsin fires, the Michigan fires, in
connection with all which there were
manifested strange and unaccountable
phenomena; the floods of the Ohio, the
Mississippi, and other Western rivers; the
devastating floods of Europe; the famines of
China and India; the cyclones and tidal waves,
sweeping away the proudest works of man,