Page 23 - 07 The Sealing

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
servants, is some distinguishing mark, or

religious characteristic, through which they

will be exempted from the judgments of God

that fall on the wicked around them.

As we have found the seal of God in the fourth

commandment, the inquiry follows, Does the

observance of that commandment involve any

peculiarity in religious practice? — Yes, a very

marked and striking one. It is one of the most

singular facts to be met with in religious

history that, in an age of such boasted gospel

light as the present, when the influence of

Christianity is so powerful and wide-spread,

one of the most striking peculiarities in

practice which a person can adopt, and one of

the greatest crosses he can take up, even in the

most enlightened and Christian lands, is the

simple observance of the law of God. For the