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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
condemnation of the lost will be true to the
letter: —
“And evermore the thunders murmuring
spoke From out the darkness, uttering loud
these words, Which every guilty conscience
echoed back: ‘Ye knew your duty, but ye did it
not.’ Dread words! that barred excuse, and
threw the weight Of every man’s perdition on
himself Directly home — ‘Ye knew your duty,
but ye did it not.’”
The bride also says, Come. But the bride is the
city, and how does that say Come? If we could
be strengthened to behold the living glories of
that city and live, and should be permitted to
gaze upon its dazzling beauty, and be assured
that we had a perfect right to enter therein
and bathe in that ocean of bliss and
blessedness and revel in its glory forever and