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Daniel Interprets the Writing

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International Tract and Missionary Society · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Feb 4, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 5.

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Daniel Interprets the Writing

But none of all these could tell him a word. Then his mother came in, and told him of Daniel's ability to interpret secrets. Daniel was immediately sent for; and he came, and told the king the writing and the meaning of it. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it." "Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting." "Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." The drunkenness and lascivious carousals in the palace were copied to perfection in all parts of the city. Drunkenness was everywhere, and men and women mingled together in the awful obscenity of that heathen revelry which was the most acceptable worship of Venus and Adonis.