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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 22 – The Tree and the River of Life
were not sufficiently ample. They can never

reasonably object that the light given to show

them the way of life was not sufficiently clear

They can never excuse themselves on the

ground that the invitations and entreaties that

Mercy has given them to turn and live, were

not sufficiently full and free. From the very

beginning, there has been a power exerted as

strong as could be exerted and still leave man

his own free agent, — a power to draw him

heavenward, and raise him from the abyss

into which he has fallen. Come! has been the

entreaty of the Spirit from the lips of God

himself, from the lips of his prophets, from the

lips of his apostles, and from the lips of his Son,

even while, in his infinite compassion and

humility, he was paying the debt of our

transgression.