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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
deaths, chiefly through disturbances of the

elements and the convulsions of nature,

during that fateful year. And similar

disturbances have followed with more or less

severity in subsequent years. Look at the

disastrous earthquakes in Japan in 1896, in

which more than ten thousand persons lost

their lives, and the panic in which thousands

of Russian peasants perished at the

coronation of the czar, in the same year.

VERSE 15. The merchants of these things,

which were made rich by her, shall stand afar

off for the fear of her torment, weeping and

wailing, 16. And saying, Alas, alas that great

city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple,

and scarlet, and decked with gold, and

precious stones, and pearls! 17. For in one

hour so great riches is come to naught. And