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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
interested in these truths, believing that the

time had come for the application of the

prophecy, and that the words of the angel,

“Hurt not,” etc., indicated a movement on the

part of the church, accordingly raised their

petitions to the Ruler of nations to restrain the

cruel work of tumult and war. Days of fasting

and prayer were set apart for this purpose.

The time at which this occurred was a dark

and gloomy period of the war; and not a few

high in political life predicted its indefinite

continuance, and an appalling intensity of all

its evils. But suddenly a change came; and not

three months had elapsed from the time of

which we speak, ere the last army of the

Southern Confederacy had surrendered, and

all its soldiers had laid down their arms. So

sudden and entire was the collapse, and so

grateful were all hearts for relief from the