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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 5 – Belshazzar’s Feast
thereof. 9. Then was king Belshazzar greatly

troubled, and his countenance was changed in

him, and his lords were astonied.

No flashes of supernatural light, nor deafening

peals of thunder, announced the interference

of God in their impious revelries. A hand

silently appeared, tracing mystic characters

upon the wall. It wrote over against the

candlestick. In the light of their own lamp they

saw it. Terror seized upon the king; for his

conscience accused him. Although he could

not read the writing, he knew it was no

message of peace and blessing that was traced

in glittering characters upon his palace wall.

And the description the prophet gives of the

effect of the king’s fear cannot be excelled in

any particular. The king’s countenance was

changed, his heart failed him, pain seized upon