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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 16 – The Plagues Poured Out
away, and the mountains are not found.
Again the wicked give vent to their woe in
blasphemy; for the plague of the hail is
“exceeding great.”
Some faint idea of the terrible effect of such a
scene as is here predicted, may be inferred
from the following sketch of a hailstorm on the
Bosporus, by our countryman, the late
Commodore Porter, in his Letters from
Constantinople and its Environs, Vol. I, p. 44.
He says: —
“We had got perhaps a mile and a half on our
way, when a cloud rising in the west, gave
indications of approaching rain. In a few
minutes we discovered something falling from
the heavens with a heavy splash, and with a
whitish appearance. I could not conceive what
it was, but observing some gulls near, I
