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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
New and unlooked-for complications have

suddenly sprung up, throwing matters into

apparently inextricable confusion, and

threatening immediate and direful war. And

now and then the conflict has burst forth in

fury, and a thousand voices have been raised

to predict that the great crisis had come, that

universal war must result, and the

termination no man could foretell, when

suddenly and unaccountably it has been

extinguished, and all subsided into quiet

again. In our own land the terrible civil war of

1861 to 1865 is a notable instance. By the

spring of the latter year, so great had become

the pressure upon the nation for men and

means to continue the war that it began

seriously to impede the progress of the work

symbolized by the ascending angel, even

threatening to arrest it entirely. Those