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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
and hurling thousands of human beings into

untimely graves.

But we have no need to go so far into the past.

Look at the occurrences of more recent times.

The year 1882 was considered a phenomenal

and fatal year; but the disasters of the first

seven months of 1883 overbalanced those of

the whole year preceding. In January, one

hundred and ten persons perished by floods

and fires; in February, one hundred and

twenty-seven by floods; in March, eleven by

fire; in April, three hundred and four by

tornadoes; in May, one hundred and thirty-

two by the Brooklyn-bridge panic and by

tornadoes; in June, fifty-eight by tornadoes

and floods; in July, one hundred and one by

disasters. The foregoing casualties occurred in

this country. In the Old World, the fatalities