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The Story of Daniel the Prophet by Stephen N. Haskell
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GENERAL INDEX


A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 


  A
Abel, offering of    —137
Ability given by God    —57
Abradates, viceroy of Elam    —104
Abraham called from idolatry    —38
Abraham shown promise of Saviour in sky    —256
Abraham, why name was changed    —71
Abstinence while studying    —23
Account, princes rendered to Daniel    —80
Accountability for our ways    —76
Accuracy of date 457 B.C., how established    —131
Accuracy of Daniel    —79
Accusation against Daniel, princes dared not make openly    —82
Accusers, Daniel’s, cast into the den    —86
Adversity, God brings when necessary    —58
Advent message, given within memory of living    —132
Alexander and Cyrus, resemblance between    —184
Alexander and Darius, contest between    —106
Alexander a Macedonian    —184
Alexander at Jerusalem    —186
Alexander an organizer and diplomat    —185
Alexander becomes king of Greece    —185
Alexander, character of    —108
Alexander, death of    —186
Alexander, fate of    —108
Alexander, generals had not power of    —109
Alexander given a chance to choose    —187
Alexander, how introduced in divine record    —184
Alexander, message of God to    —187
Alexander, will of as a boy    —184
Alexander used by God    —184
Alexander victorious    —107
Alexander worships God    —186
Alexander’s generals divide the kingdom    —109
Alexander’s kingdom, divisions of    —193
Alexander’s reverence for priests    —197
Alexandria, city of, founded    —190
Alexandria, center of theology    —229
Alexandria, policy of papacy seen in    —236
Alexandrian Library founded by Ptolemy Philadelphus    —192
Altars, each family erected its own    —137
Ambassadors, object of visit to Hezekiah    —15
America, discovery of due to Mohammedans    —246
America founded on principles of Reformation    —240
Ammon knew Babylon was to fall    —66
Angel choir led by Gabriel    —115
Angel, Daniel talked with    —86
Angel in den visible to Daniel    —86
Angel of light, Satan will appear as    —116
Angels interested in scenes of earth    —113
Angels, ministry of understood by Nebuchadnezzar    —45
Angels mustered the forces against Babylon    —70
Angels watching events on earth    —262
Angels fight for people of God    —175
Anointing of Jesus    —128
Antichrist arose soon after Constantine    —228
Antichrist supreme    —227
Antioch falls before Pompey    —210
Antiochus IV king of Eastern world    —206
Antiochus Callinicus, son of Laodice    —195
Antiochus Magnus, success of against Egypt    —195
Antiochus poisoned    —194
Antiochus prepares to invade Egypt    —197
Antiochus Soter, successor of Seleucus    —189
Antiochus Theos, a Greco-Syrian king    —189
Antiochus Theos marries Berenice    —194
Antitype, faithful people will carry out    —152
Antitype of offerings    —146
Antitype, 144,000 will fulfill    —153
Antony, death of    —213
Antony and Cleopatra    —213
Apathy of Jews, Cyrus disheartened at    —164
Apathy of Jews in Babylon, cause of    —163
Appetite, Adam failed in    —23
Appetite, parents teaching control of    —26
Appetite, Christ tempted on    —24
Appetite, control of    —152
Appetite, Daniel’s victory over    —23
Appetite, God’s people to be proved on    —24
Appetite, Hebrew youth had not indulged    —25
Appetite, overindulgence of gives earthly mold to body    —155
Appetite, temptations to gratify    —26
Appointment with God, Daniel kept    —83
Apprehension, keenness of Hebrew youth in    —25
Arabia knew Babylon was to fall    —66
Arbela, overwhelming defeat of Medo-Persians at    —107
Arbitrary, God is never    —60
Architecture of Palestine a model to Greeks    —181
Argument, world ruled by    —209
Arianism pronounced heresy    —230
Arianism, spread of    —230
Arianism, three kingdoms adhered to    —95
Arians, hardships of    —232
Arioch seeks Daniel to be slain    —31
Aristocracy fostered in Babylon    —32
Aristotle a pupil of Plato    —185
Aristotle the teacher of Alexander    —185
Arius, presbyter in Alexandria    —229
Ark, angels gathered animals into    —70
Ark in temple center of worship    —143
Armageddon, battle of    —194, 248
Army of Constantine, Christians flocking to    —225
Army, wars of conquest demand large    —207
Army of Xerxes    —176
Arrogance of Babylonians    —38
Arsinoe graced Cζsar’s triumph in Rome    —212
Artaxerxes issues third decree    —126
Artaxerxes Longimanus issues final decree for return of Jews    —176
Art in Babylon    —51
Artificial, Babylon chose the    —38
Ascension, Gabriel appeared to disciples after    —116
Ashes taken to clean place, significance of    —143
Ashes of wicked on clean earth    —144
Ashpenaz, master of eunuchs    —20
Asia, Western, idolatry in    —77
Assyrians, Israel taken captive by    —77
Astronomy, students of Babylon reveled in    —29
Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria    —229

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Atheism in France    —241
Atmosphere, how cleansed    —145
Atonement a day of heart searching    —149
Atonement, conduct of people on day of    —152
Atonement, crowning service of year    —147
Atonement, day of in heaven    —98
Atonement, how it was kept by ancient Israel    —148
Atonement, result of    —150
Atonement, service in temple on day of    —149
Attitude of men toward heavenly government    —60
Attitude of men toward earthly governments    —60
Augustus, meaning of name    —208
Augustus proclaimed emperor of Rome    —214
Authority of earth and heaven arrayed    —40
Authority of papacy gained gradually    —236
Azazel, the scapegoat    —149


  B
Babylon a battle-ground for good and evil    —69
Babylon, rulers learn of God in    —44
Babylon a name used in Revelation    —37
Babylon an astonishment    —75
Babylon and her daughters    —180
Babylon applied to modern churches in Revelation    —37
Babylon a symbol of all earthly governments    —40
Babylon beautified by Nebuchadnezzar    —29
Babylon, beginning of, small    —54
Babylon blotted out    —103
Babylon built on divine laws perverted    —60
Babylon, changes in during two years    —104
Babylon considered impregnable    —69
Babylon, Daniel saw complete overthrow of    —91
Babylon, description of last night of    —68
Babylon designed like city of God    —28
Babylon, downfall of well known to Jews    —64
Babylon educational center of world    —29, 37
Babylon established by Satan to show God his success    —28
Babylon, extent of history of    —28
Babylon, fall of known by many nations    —66
Babylon, flee from modern    —76
Babylon, God waited long for    —73
Babylon, heart of God drawn to    —82
Babylon, iniquity of described by Micah    —80
Babylon, Jews’ love of    —120
Babylon, Jews told to flee from    —66
Babylon might have been everlasting    —61
Babylon, modern, God calls people out of    —38
Babylon mother of harlots    —95, 180
Babylon outgrows counsels of Heaven    —33
Babylon, people gathered to, who should have been dispersed    —28
Babylon, power of    —90
Babylon, principles of originated with Lucifer    —54
Babylon, rapidity of conquests of    —91
Babylon represented by head of gold and lion    —90
Babylon rotten at heart    —55
Babylon shows highest development of plans of Satan    —60
Babylon, sins of ancient will be repeated    —38
Babylon, why strongest of earthly kingdoms    —60
Babylon taken by Persians    —74
Babylon, time of destruction of    —63
Babylon, watch against evils of    —56
Babylon, who was real ruler of    —53
Babylon, why God blessed    —61
Babylon, why she fell    —95, 102
Babylonian kingdom governed by tyranny    —29
Babylonians defeated in battle    —67
Babylonians, efforts of God to warn    —61
Babylonians were sun-worshipers    —61
Bacchus, a feast of    —68
Balaam, condition of in vision    —159
Balaam’s plan, a repetition of    —221
Balance of power, Israel might have had    —196
Balances, idolaters believe gods use    —72
Balancing outward pressure by inward power    —84
Baptism of Christ in fall of 27 A.D.    —128
Barbarians in Europe and Asia, 351 to 483 A.D.    —94
Barbarians overrun Rome    —94
Battle between ram and goat    —117
Battle, final, nations now mustering forces for    —76
Battles, Roman, greatest in history    —110
Bay tree, man passes away like a    —58
Bear represented Medo-Persia    —91
Beast, dreadful and terrible    —92
Beast, fourth, Daniel desired to understand    —92
Beast, fourth, fate of    —102
Beast, fourth, ten horns of    —93
Beast, decree of, in what position it will find people of God    —175
Beast, non-worshipers of can not buy or sell    —49
Beasts coming up from the sea    —90
Beasts, dominion taken, but life prolonged    —93
Beasts of prey, kingdom represented as    —89, 90
Beasts, man once had dominion over    —86
Beasts, mind elevates man above    —57
Beasts, what will make man king of    —86
Beasts, why they seek to hurt man    —86
Beauty, Greeks admired    —183
Beauty of Esther, God used    —173
Bel, blessing of invoked by Belshazzar    —68
Bel, Daniel named for by king    —52, 71
Belisarius, general of Justinian’s army    —95
Belisarius, success of Justinian due to    —231
Belisarius, triumph of described by Gibbon    —232
Belisarius victorious in Africa    —232
Bells on priest’s robe, people listened for    —150
Belshazzar, character of    —64
Belshazzar on throne with his father    —63
Belshazzar slain    —75, 118
Belshazzar, warnings of God to unheeded    —71
Belshazzar’s feast    —68
Belshazzar’s terror    —70
Belteshazzar, Daniel named    —52, 71
Berenice, of southern Greece    —194
Berenice, death of    —195
Bethlehem, events that have taken place in    —215
Bethlehem, Jesus born in    —214
Bible brings intellectual and moral advancement    —261
Bible circulated among people    —264
Bible, how studied by church Fathers    —229
Bible, private interpretations of    —242
Bird with blood flying through air, significance of    —145
Birth of Jesus, place of foretold    —129
Birth of Saviour announced by Gabriel to Mary    —115
Bishops of Rome become exalted    —96
Bishops of Rome greedy for civil power    —96
Blessing from obeying Bible    —83
Blessings given to Babylon    —73
Blood held over running water, significance of    —145
Blood of Christ dropped through the air    —146
Blood of Christ received by earth in garden    —146
Blood of sin offering, where disposed of    —140
Blood sprinkling before ark    —150
Body a temple    —141
Body to be dwelling place for Holy Spirit    —135
Body of man, Satan took possession of    —135
Body, soul should control    —155
Body the dwelling place of God, Israel had lost sight of    —138

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Body, what will bring strength to    —48
Body to be presented a living sacrifice    —153
Books, Greek, in demand    —190
Books of record opened in heaven    —101
Bread of life, nations looked for in Babylon    —56
Breast and arms of silver    —35
Breath a symbol of spiritual breath    —72
Breath leaves body in vision    —158
Brevity of Scripture history    —33
Bribery in Daniel’s time    —80
Bribery in Rome    —81
Brute supremacy and progress of mighty generals, contrast between    —196
Building, Haggai and Zechariah urge people to resume    —167
Building of Jerusalem ceases    —166
Bullock for priest’s atonement offered first    —149
Burnt offering, details of    —142
Burnt offering, significance of priest’s eating    —142
Business ability of Daniel    —79
Business interests secondary    —152
Business men, Daniel an example to    —79
Business man not necessarily a policy man    —79
Business man may be instructed by God at every step    —79


  C
Cζsar Augustus ruler of Rome    —213
Cζsar, character of    —212
Cζsar compared to Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, and Alexander    —212
Cζsar, death of    —213
Cζsar in Egypt, conquests of    —212
Cζsar, render to him things that are his    —81
Cζsar the master mind of Rome    —210
Cζsar’s famous dispatch from Asia Minor    —212
Cain failed to see Christ in sacrifice    —136
Cain and Abel types of worshipers    —137
Calvary, two extremes of vegetation met at    —146
Cambyses’ reign, Jews still at Jerusalem during    —165
Cambyses slain in Egypt    —165
Cambyses, son of Cyrus, reign of    —165
Cambyses the Ahasuerus of Ezra 4:5    —165
Canaanites, Jews intermarry with    —177
Captivity, burden of still on Daniel’s heart    —154
Captivity of Jews, length of    —119
Care of God for sinners    —61
Carthage and Rome, struggle between    —205
Carthage, surrender of to Belisarius    —232
Cassander, Greece given to    —109
Catholic faith, Justinian the champion of    —230
Catholic faith, three kingdoms opposed to    —95
Catholic faith, triumph of in Africa    —232
Catholic the recognized religion of Rome    —230
Cedar wood and hyssop represent vegetation    —145
Censure, God clear from in fate of men    —58
Ceremonial law, Greek worship resembled    —181
Ceremonies ceased at cross    —130
Ceremonies multiplied by Cain’s followers    —137
Chaldeans bitter and hasty    —90
Change in Cyrus, Daniel could not understand    —155
Channels for river, Cyrus’s men digging    —66
Character, contrast in between God’s servant and Satan’s    —84
Character, God names according to    —208
Character, name independent of in Rome    —208
Character, name an expression of    —71
Character of Christ, Jacob knew    —137
Character of Christ, man known by on books in heaven    —73
Character of Christ reflected in saints    —257
Character of Daniel could endure brightness of Christ’s face    —156
Character of Daniel like those in last days    —23
Character to be tried by law in heaven    —143
Character of Joseph, Jacob read aright    —138
Character of one to whom God can speak    —122
Character, what will stand test of judgment    —143
Characteristics of four kingdoms, how shown    —180
Characters mirrored in books of heaven    —101
Cheating in Daniel’s time    —80
Childhood, faith developed in    —26
Children, Greek ideas instilled into    —198
Children, Greek philosophy taught to now    —242
Children in understanding, Israel had become    —139
Children, Israelites sell for slaves    —166
Children now fed on Greek myths    —182
Children of Jews brought up like Babylonians    —163
Children of early Christians, how taught    —111
Children, result of Israel’s failure to educate    —164
Children, sacred songs taught to    —111
Children to be taught law of God    —261
Children to be told meaning of sanctuary service    —144
Child training    —16
Christ a conqueror on the cross    —146
Christ a lamb slain from foundation of world    —135
Christ and Satan contending at Babylon    —69
Christ crucified by Jews    —130
Christ fasted forty days    —173
Christ forever changed    —99
Christ, Greece no excuse for not receiving    —94, 182
Christ, heart of God broken in offering    —99
Christ, how regarded in heaven    —99
Christ in heaven still a man    —99
Christ in sealed sepulcher    —85
Christ, meaning of in Greek    —128
Christ one with Father    —99
Christ, 144,000 bodyguard of    —257
Christ pleading for his people    —252
Christ, Rome presumed to hold authority over person of    —95
Christ, Satan has no power over    —87
Christ satisfied    —258
Christ speaks through Gabriel    —116
Christ tempted by Satan    —220
Christ the Saviour of Hebrews    —129
Christ the lamb slain in outer court    —97
Christ, why he withdrew to mountains    —83
Christ’s coming, first and second, probability of in Jeremiah’s time    —168
Christ’s coming to judgment not the second advent    —100
Christ’s second coming described    —256
Christ’s work on earth    —130
Christian history, 538 A.D. an important date in    —235
Christian, what it meant to be in days of Rome    —220
Christianity, effects of elevating to throne    —227
Christmas a relic of Babylonian customs    —55
Church and state, union of in Babylon    —29
Church and state, union of near end of world    —35
Church and state, union of denoted by clay    —35
Church and state in Christian lands    —35
Church and state, union of under Constantine    —228
Church, equal rights of members of    —38
Church, evils crept into early    —111
Church in last days, Babylon represents    —180
Church in Rome, rank of    —96
Church, last, perfection of organization in    —259
Church of God, meaning of    —222
Church of Rome, worldliness in    —96
Church organized in Rome    —96

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Church, paganism in the early    —221
Church, power of lost through pride    —58
Church, Revelation says earth helped    —238
Church, Rome magnified herself against    —110
Church seeking wisdom of world    —197
Church to-day in same position as Israelites in Babylon    —170
Church to-day, promises in Zechariah for    —170
Church, true, characteristics of    —222
Circumstances, seldom the same twice    —47
Cities of Rome sacked    —95
Cities, temptations in our large    —26
Cities destroyed by Rome    —110
Civil government, duty toward    —61
Clay in feet denoted marked change    —35
Cleansing of temple, service of year pointed to    —147
Clement, philosophy of Greeks adopted by    —229
Cleopatra and Antony    —213
Cleopatra, cause of espoused by Cζsar    —211
Cleopatra placed on throne of Egypt    —212
Cleopatra under charge of Roman senate    —211
Clouds of heaven are angels    —101
Coat of Joseph dipped in blood    —137
Coming of Christ in 1844 A.D., what it was    —100
Commandment of Dan. 9:25, it took three decrees to make    —127
Companions, Daniel took into retirement with him    —155
Confession of Daniel for his people    —120
Co-operation between sinner and priest, what it represents    —141
Conquests of Alexander, rapidity of    —185
Conscience, to fetter is tyranny and persecution    —41
Consciences of men, Rome ruled over    —96
Constancy of three Hebrews, God triumphed through    —45
Constantine and Justinian, conquests of    —235
Constantine, character of    —226
Constantine, conversion of    —225
Constantine makes league with Christians    —225
Constantine subdues all rivals    —224
Constantinople a bone of contention    —227
Constantinople captured by Mohammedans    —246
Constantinople, capital of Rome under Constantine    —226
Constantinople, history will again center about    —245
Constantinople, jealousy of nations over    —247
Constantinople the seat of contention in last days    —251
Constantinople seat of Justinian’s empire    —95
Constantinople, seat of Roman government moved to    —235
Constantinople the key to the Mediterranean    —245
Constantinople, why chosen for capital    —227
Constantinople, when founded    —227
Consternation of Jews at coming of Alexander    —186
Constitution adopted in France    —244
Constitution of United States result of Puritan faith and courage    —245
Constitution of Roman government    —205
Consuls, Rome ruled by    —204
Continental countries, history of like Babylon    —81
Controversy between Athanasius and Arius    —230
Controversy between Christ and Satan, end of    —28, 43, 103
Controversy between truth and error unabated    —189
Conversion of many dated from day on Dura    —46
Converts of disciples, 3,000 in one day    —131
Cord connecting earth and heaven broken by Belshazzar    —73
Corporations in Rome    —81
Corruption, attitude man of God must assume toward    —81
Corsica surrenders to Belisarius    —232
Counselors of Babylon, no God-fearing men among    —64
Council of Nice    —230
Councils, angels always in national    —158
Councils of heaven, representatives from all worlds in    —204
Councils of princes, Satan in    —84
Countenance of Christ like lightning    —156
Countenance shows condition of health    —23
Counter decree of Xerxes    —175
Counterfeit of heavenly government    —60
Court life, Daniel had 67 years of    —89
Court of heaven, Daniel saw scenes to transpire in    —97
Covenant, symbol of the everlasting    —255
Crassus controlled the money of Rome    —210
Creation, the drawing power of    —199
Creator, man will reign with    —103
Creed, Nicene    —230
Creed of Athanasius adopted as orthodox    —230
Crescent, the Moslem symbol    —246
Cross, the emblem of Constantine’s army    —225
Crimean war    —248
Crooked dealing, God has record of    —101
Crucifixion, Daniel saw and fainted    —114
Crucifixion, who responsible for    —217
Culture of Greeks    —183
Cup of Christ, who must drink    —254
Cup of God’s wrath, who will drink    —254
Curiosity about three Hebrews    —46
Cyrus a Persian    —91
Cyrus and Daniel not strangers    —75
Cyrus, Daniel continued until first year of    —27
Cyrus, Daniel’s deliverance a lesson to    —86
Cyrus, decree of found in records    —126
Cyrus detained from Babylon one year    —66
Cyrus disgusted with Jews    —125
Cyrus familiar with prophecies concerning Babylon    —76
Cyrus fulfilled prophecy of Isaiah    —124
Cyrus, general of Medo-Persian army    —77, 91
Cyrus, God was using    —70
Cyrus heir to Medo-Persian throne    —77
Cyrus, Isaiah prophesied of    —124
Cyrus leading spirit after Darius’s death    —91
Cyrus made strong by God    —70
Cyrus to rebuild temple at Jerusalem    —75
Cyrus to restore freedom to Jews    —118
Cyrus stopped from entering Babylon    —66
Cyrus welcomed to Babylon by Daniel    —75
Cyrus, why brought into power    —154
Cyrus, why called to strange work    —78


  D
Daniel a book for rulers as well as people    —61
Daniel accused to Darius    —84
Daniel acquainted with God    —121
Daniel a hostage in Babylon    —14
Daniel a latter-day prophet    —13, 180, 250
Daniel and companions, why put at head of empire    —37
Daniel a representative of Christ    —86, 121
Daniel a sealed book    —13
Daniel, book of to be understood    —264
Daniel called to read writing on wall    —70
Daniel chief of presidents in Medo-Persia    —78
Daniel clung to Hebrew name    —71
Daniel counsels Belshazzar to repent    —57
Daniel, Darius parting with at lions’ den    —85
Daniel, Darius’s confidence in    —82
Daniel, death of    —265

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Daniel dismissed from court    —64
Daniel educated by the Lord    —24
Daniel 4 most wonderful chapter in Bible    —50
Daniel, home of in Belshazzar’s reign    —64
Daniel honored by God    —87
Daniel, how to understand    —14
Daniel in Babylon again    —118
Daniel in Babylon over seventy years    —27
Daniel known to be a prophet in Babylon    —65
Daniel made counselor    —39
Daniel made governor of provinces of Babylon    —36
Daniel means “God’s judge”    —71
Daniel not classed among wise men    —32
Daniel, obedience of to rulers and to God    —83
Daniel perplexed about 2300 days    —118
Daniel placed over wise men when only 21 yrs. old    —36
Daniel, princes find no fault concerning work of    —82
Daniel remembered by queen    —70
Daniel retained in court by Darius and Cyrus    —154
Daniel served God, not a party    —79
Daniel sole ruler in Babylon when taken by Cyrus    —75
Daniel tells vision to Nebuchadnezzar    —36
Daniel, the last vision of    —154
Daniel third ruler in Babylon    —78
Daniel 3 and Revelation 13 compared    —48
Daniel, 2300 days explained to    —122
Daniel uncontaminated    —81
Daniel welcomed Cyrus as sent from God    —75
Daniel, why chosen to go to Babylon    —20
Daniel, why God could talk with    —32
Daniel, why not destroyed with Babylon    —75
Daniel witnessed for God 68 years    —83
Daniel’s companions given high positions    —36
Daniel’s decision on the diet question    —21
Daniel’s decision, reasons for and against    —21
Daniel’s early training    —19
Daniel’s efforts to present Christ to king    —44
Daniel’s mother, character of    —19
Daniel’s vision of fourth kingdom    —200
Daniel’s work over    —264
Darius a Mede    —91
Darius flattered by decree of princes    —82
Darius, Gabriel stood by    —162
Darius had opportunity to work for Jews    —162
Darius Hystaspes becomes king of Persia    —166
Darius, kingdom given to    —75
Darius, long reign of    —168
Darius ruled short time    —91
Darius the Mede made king    —77
Darius thought to set Daniel over whole realm    —81
Darius’s belief in God confirmed    —86
Dark Ages began in 538 A.D.    —234
Darkness about cross a type    —217
David, no sweet singers like in Rome    —208
David’s comment on man’s passing away    —58
Dead, cases of investigated    —101
Dealings, Daniel faultless in    —81
Dealings of God with nations    —60
Death, Christ has power over    —87
Death of Alexander, confusion after    —188
Death of Christ a sign of his Messiahship    —130
Death, three Hebrews did not know God would save them from    —47
Death, speculation brings    —199
Death the result of disconnecting from Heaven    —74
Decadence of Rome, reasons for    —224
Decalogue, how changed by Catholics    —236
Decree, Cyrus doubted wisdom of his    —154
Decree, Daniel knew purpose of    —83
Decree, every just is result of impulse from God    —158
Decree for return of Jews issued by Cyrus    —87
Decree, meaning of    —82
Decree made no difference in Daniel’s life    —81
Decree, Mordecai makes known to Esther    —174
Decree of Artaxerxes, extent of    —176
Decree of Artaxerxes, provisions of    —126
Decree of Artaxerxes, when issued    —126
Decree of Cyrus, where recorded    —124
Decree of Cyrus quoted to governors in Palestine    —167
Decree of Cyrus a call to purity and liberty    —163
Decree of Cyrus found by Darius    —167
Decree of Darius, second    —125
Decree of Darius more complete than that of Cyrus    —167
Decree of 457 B.C.    —176
Decree of Nebuchadnezzar to all world    —40, 50
Decree of Xerxes against Jews    —174
Decree of Xerxes, counterpart of to be issued by beast of Rev. 13    —175
Decree prohibiting speech against God of heaven    —46
Decree, result of disappointed Daniel    —125
Decree signed by Darius    —82
Decree unalterable in Medo-Persia    —85
Deeds of kindness prompted by Heaven    —175
Degradation, Nebuchadnezzar had seven years of    —59
Degrees given by Nebuchadnezzar himself    —29
Deliverance of Israel from Babylon near    —82
Deliverance of Jews, Daniel searching for time of    —118
Deliverance prepared for Esther    —175
Deliverances, wonderful    —238
Deliverer promised Jews    —128
Deliverer, who were looking for    —129
Delphi, oracle of    —183
Democracy the true form of government    —243
Denominations, opportunities offered to    —223
Denominations, succession of    —223
Description of God, Nebuchadnezzar had heard    —45
Desert, why John was educated in    —191
Desires, Daniel a man of    —122
Desires, how God tests strength of    —121, 158
Despotism the ruling characteristic of Medo-Persia    —201
Destiny, how it is decided    —34
Destiny of generation, forty years the allotted time to settle    —173
Destruction of God’s people, Satan determined to accomplish    —228
Destruction, men bring upon themselves    —58
Details of government same then as now    —80
Deterioration of kingdoms after Babylon    —35
Diet, simple while studying divine things    —23
Diet, the principle of    —23
Diocletian partitions territory of Rome    —224
Diploma given Daniel    —32
Disciples, Holy Spirit working through for Jews    —130
Disciples of Jesus, Satan aroused against    —131
Dishonesty in Daniel’s time as now    —80
Disobedience, results of to Israel    —43
Divine government, one principle of    —81
Divine government, Rome a counterfeit of    —204
Dominion of little horn, when taken away    —97
Door into most holy place opened in 1844 A.D.    —100
Dove resting on Jesus at baptism    —129
Drama of life, God gives events proper setting in    —161
Dream, importance of Nebuchadnezzar’s    —53
Dream of tree, Nebuchadnezzar’s    —30, 51
Dream, why given to Nebuchadnezzar in night    —30
Dream, why Nebuchadnezzar forgot    —30
Dura, image on plain of    —40

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Dura, vast multitudes learn of God on    —42


  E
Earth, fire, water worshiped by Medes and Persians    —77
Earth to be cleansed from effects of sin    —140
Easter eggs, eaten in commemoration of heathen gods    —55
Eden, Adam looked forward to returning to    —136
Eden beauty, earth again to be clothed in    —145
Eden, traditional stories of trees in    —52
Eden, trees of, envied tree of Egypt    —51
Edicts of Constantine    —227
Edom knew Babylon was to fall    —66
Education and religion, Jews tinctured with Babylonian    —191
Education, Babylon center of    —29
Education, Babylon the false    —56
Education, neglect of caused destruction of Jerusalem    —15
Education, design of in Israel    —15
Education, Daniel determined to gain    —25
Education, Greek, ahead of religion    —190
Education, Greek, result of shown in Alexander’s life    —187
Education, Hebrew the true    —56
Education, “higher,” comes from Babylonian tree    —56
Education, influence of Babylon in    —55
Education, Bible the basis of    —261
Education of Alexander    —185
Education of children in early days of Christianity, careful    —112
Education of Daniel, giving of visions a strong testimony to    —89
Education of Esther, angels directed    —173
Education of Greece, Roman youth trained under    —209
Education of Jews and Chaldeans face to face    —55
Education of Rome like that of Babylon    —93
Education, power of Rome maintained by system of    —97
Education, system of given to Israel    —190
Education, prominence of in book of Daniel    —55
Education, religious principle the foundation of highest    —26
Education, remnant to return to true principles of    —261
Education, result of Daniel’s    —89
Education, Roman system of kept Europe in darkness over 1,000 years    —97
Education, story of Jewish told on Dura    —46
Education, the true    —19
Education the ruling feature of Grecia    —201
Education, true, exalted by God    —37
Education unable to save Babylon    —34
Education, worldly, people of God will separate from    —262
Educational principles brought Daniel and his companions into favor    —164
Educational principles to make God’s people teachers of world    —38
Educational system, Babylon trusted in for salvation    —29
Educational system caused ruin of Babylon    —29
Educational system of Babylon accepted to-day    —38
Educational system older than Greece    —55
Educational system, our, traced to Babylon    —55
Egypt a blight to men and nations    —212
Egypt a slave to Babylon    —51
Egypt a type of sin and bondage    —212
Egypt and Ethiopia, Cambyses wars with    —165
Egypt educational center of world    —33
Egypt, Ezekiel saw vision of capture of    —51
Egypt, Israel delivered from bondage in    —190
Egypt, Israel warned against fleeing to for protection    —190
Egypt knew Babylon was to fall    —66
Egypt, many Jews flocking to    —190
Egypt represented as a tree    —51
Egypt, Rome’s control over    —206
Egyptian history, how much noticed in Bible    —161
Egyptian senators taught by Joseph    —33
Elam, revolt of from Babylon    —75, 104
Emancipation proclamation to Jews in Babylon    —154
Empire progresses from east to west    —194
Encyclopedia Britannica, quotation from    —190
Enemies, when God’s people can have support of    —128
Energy of Satan    —218
England defeats Napoleon    —244, 247
England, history of like Babylon’s    —81
Enjoyment, physical or intellectual, Greeks met for    —183
Enoch, Daniel and his companions like    —24
Equal rights of all men recognized    —38
Equilibrium, how to maintain spiritual    —84
Error, difficult to detect in government of Babylon    —60
Escape for Daniel, king searching for    —84
Esther, angels directed education of    —173
Esther an orphan of Saul’s house    —172
Esther, book of the record of Xerxes    —170
Esther, character of    —172
Esther, crucial moment in life of    —174
Esther is true to God    —174
Esther, Jews fasted for    —174
Esther, nationality of unknown in Shushan    —172
Esther, parents of taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar    —172
Eternal life, what will insure    —198
Eternal things, Daniel was in the habit of seeing    —32
Eternity and time compared    —117
Eternity, joy and peace throughout    —152
Eunuchs, Hezekiah’s descendants to be    —15
Euphrates, Cyrus lowering water in    —70
Euphrates flowed through Babylon    —29
Euphrates receding, no one noticed    —74
Europe, authority of little horn over all thrones of    —96
Europe, general breaking up of when the Turks leave Constantinople    —248
Events between 34 A.D. and 1844 A.D. described to Daniel    —133
Everlasting city, Jerusalem might have been    —168
Everlasting, each denomination had privilege of becoming    —223
Everlasting punishment threatened    —237
Evil-merodach, destruction of Babylon delayed beyond reign of    —63
Evil-merodach, Daniel possibly the instructor of    —63
Evil-merodach mentioned twice in Bible    —63
Evil-merodach reigned two years    —63
Evil-merodach succeeds Nebuchadnezzar    —63
Evil-merodach the one thing recorded of    —63
Evil-merodach, unsettled period following reign of    —63
Examination, Daniel’s standing in    —20
Excuse, God leaves man without    —192, 198
Exercise    —20
Existence of individuals or nations, how to prolong    —107
Exodus from Babylon, what it should have been    —124
Exodus from Egypt compared to that from Babylon    —125
Expense of returning to Jerusalem, by whom borne    —124

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Experience of each one different    —47
Eye of faith, Daniel’s undimmed at 85    —89
Eye, God will guide with his    —156
Eyes of Lord are seven spirits    —142
Eyes of little horn    —95, 97
Eyes open in vision    —159
Ezekiel a Hebrew captive    —51
Ezekiel, condition of in vision    —159
Ezekiel contemporaneous with Daniel    —23
Ezekiel describes throne of God    —98
Ezekiel known to be a prophet in Babylon    —66
Ezekiel, God’s attitude toward sinners shown by    —73
Ezra appeals to Artaxerxes for help    —176
Ezra goes to Jerusalem with small company    —177


  F
Faith, absence of brings perplexity    —47
Faith and prayer prevail with God    —121
Faith, Daniel’s request an act of    —22
Faith developed in childhood    —26
Faith the motive power of God’s system    —199
Faith, the supreme test of for the remnant    —253
Faithfulness in little things    —25
Faithfulness in one thing, influence of    —48
Faithfulness of Daniel to Medes    —79
Fall of Babylon taught in Babylon    —65
Family, obedience in    —259
Fast, Daniel’s two years after decree of Cyrus    —155
Fat, burning of a sweet savor to God    —141
Fat of sacrifice burned    —141
Fat of lamb, type of wicked    —141
Fate of wicked shown in Daniel 6    —87
Father, priest of household    —137
Favor of conquered races, how Alexander sought to win    —186
Favor with God    —73
Favorite with God, every man a special    —122
Fear of Jews among Persians    —175
Feast of Xerxes like that of Belshazzar    —171
Feasts, Jews forbidden to celebrate    —65
Feasts of Jewish year typified phases of gospel    —147
Fidelity, test of    —42
Fire, continual burning of typified fire of last day    —143
Fire consumed Abel’s offering    —137
Fire in streets of Babylon    —75
Fire kept burning by Persians    —78
Fire on altars, how lighted    —136
Fire on altar represents family worship    —142
Fire, no smell of on garments    —45
Fire worshiped by Medes and Persians    —77
Flattery, Daniel did not speak    —71
Food, Daniel’s test on    —20
Food of beasts, Nebuchadnezzar ate    —58
Food, pure    —20
Foods, rich, effects of    —22
Force from God holds worlds in orbits    —98
Foreign conquests of Alexander    —185
Forgiveness granted by pope    —237
Fornication, nations drunk with wine of    —55, 180
Forty years, examples of periods of    —173
Four hundred ninety years, how to reckon    —131
Fourth commandment, light encircled    —148
France, atheism in    —241
France, condition of the result of Greek teaching    —242
France, experience of an object lesson    —240
France, government like that of Babylon    —81
Franchise granted to Romans    —212
Freedom from Babylon, Jews dreaded effort to obtain    —120
French Revolution, an object lesson    —242, 245
Fruit of Spirit    —48
Fruits, Cain brought an offering of    —137
Furnace, deliverance from told to ends of earth    —45
Furnace, Hebrews cast into    —43
Furnace, king sees four men in    —44
Furniture of tabernacle described to children    —139
Future, Daniel had visions of    —88
Future determined by conduct    —102
Future events, Christ reveals through Gabriel    —116
Future, Nebuchadnezzar wished to know    —30
Future of God’s people, Zechariah saw    —168
Future opened by God to heathen king    —88


  G
Gabriel carried Daniel into heaven in vision    —89
Gabriel explains 2300 days    —114
Gabriel gave sign at baptism of Jesus    —130
Gabriel gives characteristics of fourth kingdom    —200
Gabriel instructed Zacharias concerning name for John    —191
Gabriel led angel choir at birth of Christ    —115
Gabriel pleads with Cyrus 21 days    —158
Gabriel, positions held by    —115
Gabriel sent speedily to Daniel    —121
Gabriel showing Daniel events of last days    —256
Gabriel speaks through prophet    —116
Gabriel the angel of prophecy    —115
Gabriel the light bearer    —115
Gabriel the personal attendant of Christ    —115
Gabriel would not let John worship him    —116
Gabriel’s connection with man    —116
Games, Greek, celebrated in the East    —190
Games, Greek, performed by Jews in Jerusalem    —191
Games replaced feasts of Jehovah    —183
Gates of Babylon, God to open    —70
Gelimer, king of Vandals    —231
Generals divide kingdom, four    —188
Generation, fruit of Babylon seen in every    —55
Gentile homes on day of atonement    —149
Germans, Bible become lesson book for    —239
Gethsemane for man    —253
Gibbon, details of overthrow of three kingdoms given in    —95
Glory given to God by Daniel    —33
Glory of Babylon recognized by God    —34
Glory of God, Christ left when came to earth    —99
Glory of Moses’ face veiled    —89
Goddess of Reason unveiled in France    —241
God has plan for every person    —47
God, what separates man from    —73
Gods, how they measure good and evil    —72
Goat, Grecia represented by a    —185
Goat, interpretation of    —106
Goats, two for day of atonement    —149
Gospel, facilities to forward    —261
Gospel given by Wycliffe    —239
Gospel, Hebrews lived the    —45
Gospel in figures    —139
Gospel in Jewish economy    —139
Gospel, Jewish economy a prophecy of the    —138
Gospel might have been sent to world in Nebuchadnezzar’s day    —37
Gospel, power in    —224
Gospel preached in Rome by Paul    —96
Gospel preached under difficulties in Babylon    —65
Gospel taught by senses to Israel    —139
Gospel to be given in worldly universities    —26
Government, Babylon a counterfeit    —93
Government, church grasped reins of    —96
Government of Babylon an absolute monarchy    —29, 54
Government of Babylon, world tending toward to-day    —38

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Government of Rome broken    —95
Government of Rome after Cζsar’s death    —213
Government of Satan, Babylon highest development of    —60
Government, plan of God’s    —204
Government, religion basis of in heathen nations    —35
Government, strength of lies in territory extending east and west    —194
Government, true, principles of    —38
Governments, relation of to God    —60
Governments of to-day offshoots of Babylon    —60
Grace, Greeks admired    —183
Granicus, scene of battle between Medes and Greeks    —107, 162
Gravitation a portion of God’s drawing power    —98
Greatness always from God    —58
Greatness, true, where it lies    —34
Grecia a daughter of Babylon    —180
Grecia followed Medo-Persia    —35
Grecia different from Medo-Persia    —92
Grecia, divisions of reduced to two    —188
Grecia, specific work of    —180
Grecia, weakness in    —200
Grecia, Xerxes attempted to subdue    —176
Greco-Syriac division of kingdom, work of    —193
Greece an intellectual ruler    —189
Greece attacks Medo-Persia    —106
Greece declared independent    —205
Greece, division of    —185
Greece, history of    —179
Greece, intellectual power of    —192
Greece, kingdom of described    —106
Greece, mysteries of a repetition of Babylonian    —55
Greece, nations stirred up against    —106
Greece, representatives from in Jerusalem    —94
Greece spans gulf between Old and New Testaments    —181
Greece, tribes of    —181
Greece, Xerxes gave up invading    —106
Greek customs subtle and ensnaring    —182
Greek games drew people together    —183
Greek language, learning, and customs, Alexander a tool for introducing    —189
Greek learning rules the world    —198
Greek prophetess, character of the    —183
Greek religion and learning, truth and error in    —184
Greeks driven from Constantinople check papacy    —246
Greeks, Israel captured by learning of    —190
Ground, curse of met in Christ    —140
Guests, terror of Belshazzar’s    —69
Guide, God willing to be our    —47
Guide-posts, prophecies of Daniel like    —88


  H
Habakkuk gives reason for weakening of Babylon    —91
Habakkuk, prophecy of about Babylon    —90
Habits of Persians, simple    —78
Hadassah, or Esther    —172
Haggai and Zechariah rebuking people for inactivity    —125
Haggai a prophet in Jerusalem    —166
Haggai urges the people to work    —126
Hallowe’en, relic of mysteries of Babylon    —55
Haman hanged    —175
Haman plots for destruction of Jews    —173
Haman’s decree against Jews, why God allowed to come    —173
Handwriting, Daniel’s reward for interpreting    —74
Handwriting on wall    —68
Handwriting on wall, Daniel called from Shushan to interpret    —118
Handwriting on wall, effect of on Belshazzar    —69
Harlots, Babylon the mother of    —95, 180
Harmony with God makes harmony with beasts    —86
Harvests, failure of    —166
Hatred of Joseph’s brothers    —137
Head of gold    —34
Heads of leopard, symbols    —92
Healthful living, principles of intrusted to God’s people now    —38
Healthful living, what it will do for people    —38
Health reform, our need of    —23
Heart, a changed    —36
Heart, God dwells in by faith    —142
Heart of God broken by sufferings of Christ    —99
Heart of God touched with penitence    —99
Heathen nations, God’s people must carry truth to all    —36
Heathen wives, Jews put away    —177
Heaven and earth connected    —251
Heaven anxious in siege of Babylon    —67
Heaven, Christ enters with redeemed    —257
Heaven in the heart    —111
Heaven watching struggles of nations    —63
Heavenly sanctuary, Christ entered at his ascension    —97
Heavenly things, why they could be revealed to Daniel    —89
Hebrew nation, Abraham father of    —38
Hebrew youth honored by God    —25
Hebrew youths not all temperate    —21
Hebrew youth taken to heathen court to make God known    —37
Hebrew youth unrivaled in court of Nebuchadnezzar    —25
Hebrews, captivity of    —15
Hebrews, four, not ashamed of their God    —45
Hebrews in bondage because of sins    —65
Hebrews threatened with death in furnace    —42
Hebrews, three, accused to Nebuchadnezzar    —42
Hebrews, three, higher positions of after Dura    —47
Hebrews, three, last heard of    —47
Hebrews, three, like other men    —47
Hellespont, Xerxes crossed    —176
Heruli plucked up in 493 A.D.    —95
Heruli and Ostrogoths, extermination of    —233
Hezekiah fails to train son aright    —16
Hezekiah’s descendants to be eunuchs in Babylon    —15
Hezekiah’s life lengthened    —15
Hilderis, Justinian attempts to support on throne    —231
Higher criticism, how originated    —229
Higher criticism, how originated    —229
High priest, work of typical    —133
Historian, God the only authentic    —161
History an object lesson    —209
History, brevity of in Scriptures    —33
History, changes in    —228
History, current, shows what Daniel had to meet    —81
History, God’s purpose in tracing    —180
History in Bible, what points noticed in    —159
History of Babylon an object lesson    —37
History of Babylon, nations repeating to-day    —76
History of Babylon, study of Daniel demands    —62
History of church, John gives details of    —223
History of England like that of Babylon    —81
History of earth depends on Turkey    —248
History of Greece, Gabriel gave Daniel framework of    —189
History of Greeks pathetic    —182

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History of Jews in one verse    —123
History of Jews may be repeated now    —170
History of nations a picture of individual lives    —209
History of nations, how much of given in Bible    —161
History of Nebuchadnezzar checkered    —62
History of Nebuchadnezzar reviewed before Belshazzar    —71
History of 100 years before Daniel    —14
History of Persian empire is history of the decrees    —178
History of Persia given by Gabriel    —161
History of Persia, what books in Bible contain    —160
History of Rome given in Revelation 8    —94
History of Rome not ended with division    —94
History of Rome shown to Daniel twice    —113
History of 2,500 years revealed in one night    —33
History of world from Babylon to judgment    —88
History of world, human speculations regarding    —198
History of world, image an outline of    —35
History of world revealed to heathen king    —30
History of world, what it might have been    —170
Holy of holies the abiding place of God    —98
Holy Spirit, how it works in heart    —111
Holy Spirit cut off from Belshazzar    —71
Holy Spirit fills heart when emptied of self    —122
Holy Spirit the golden channel of wisdom    —24
Holy Watcher in legislatures    —158
Home school, results of    —20
Home schools    —163
Home training, Daniel showed results of    —20
Homes in Babylon, Jews had pleasant    —119
Honesty like thorn in flesh of unjust    —81
Honesty of Daniel    —79
Horn between eyes of goat    —106
Horn, great, broken    —109
Horn, little, attempts to change Sabbath    —96
Horn, little, diverse from others    —95
Horn, little, government of an absolute monarchy    —96
Horn, little, great words of    —102
Horn, little, had all power of Babylon    —96
Horn, little, made war with saints    —95
Horn, little, origin of    —109
Horn, little, received civil power in 538 A.D.    —96
Horn, little, represented power outside Roman empire    —94
Horn, little, three kingdoms plucked up by    —95
Horn, little, continued from 538 A.D. to 1798 A.D.    —97
Horns on beast correspond to iron and clay    —93
Horns, three, reason for overthrow of    —95
Horns, ten, meaning of    —93
Hosea, word of God to    —89
Host, no king saved by    —108
Human body the third temple    —135
Human intellect, result of worshiping    —242
Human intellect, worship of substituted for God’s worship    —241
Human longing and Christ’s heart, connection between    —114
Human reasoning exalted by Greek system    —199
Humanity, God rules    —58
Humiliation of Nebuchadnezzar    —54
Humiliation of Nebuchadnezzar, result of    —59
Humility of early church, power in    —111
Humility of Nebuchadnezzar before Daniel    —36
Huss denounces papal dogmas    —239
Hypocrisy does not deceive God    —101


  I
Idolatry, Medes did not practice gross forms of    —77
Idolatry, what is    —41
Idol worship, why introduced into Christian church    —236
Idols praised by Belshazzar    —72
Ignorance, nations can not plead now    —61
Ignorance of true God in Greece    —182
Image, golden, three Hebrews will not worship    —41
Image, golden, like image in dream    —39
Image, Nebuchadnezzar’s, when set up    —39
Image of Revelation 13, men to be disfranchised for not worshiping    —49
Image, why made all of gold    —40
Images, absence of among disciples of Jesus    —220
Images and treasure of Egypt returned by Ptolemy Euergetes    —195
Imperialism in civil law    —234
Impostor on throne of Medo-Persia    —165
Improvement of Rome, Cζsar’s plans for    —213
Incense, cloud of covered ark    —150
Incense, perfume of    —142
Incense, significance of    —142
Indifference of Jews in Babylon    —119
Individuals, how to make tabernacle service available for    —152
Inducements to Jews to return to Palestine    —163
Infallibility, decree of    —102
Infallibility of pope declared    —237
Influence of Christ’s followers    —224
Influence of Christians like incense    —142
Influence of Greece in Alexandria    —229
Influence of Greece used by both God and Satan    —193
Influence of Greek learning and literature    —184
Iniquity, filling up cup of    —75
Iniquity, Persia’s cup of, full    —107
Inquisition instituted    —237
Inquisition, instrument of Rome    —97
Instruction to Jews in Babylon    —64
Invention encouraged by God    —256
Inventions used to carry message swiftly    —260
Integrity of Daniel the means of publishing the truth    —87
Integrity, preserving under adverse circumstances    —79
Intellect, literary Greeks worshiped    —183
Intellect, those who glory in, will fail    —58
Intellectual power of Greece, permanency of    —198
Intelligence, men of, desired in God’s work    —79
Intermarriage in Greece    —194
Isaiah, condition of in vision    —159
Isaiah, Rome founded in days of    —203
Isaiah warns Hezekiah    —15
Isaiah’s prophecy of Elam    —104
Isaiah’s prophecy concerning Cyrus    —75
Israel in Babylon a counterpart of God’s people now    —163
Israel, position of toward other nations    —196
Israel seemingly forgotten by God    —39
Israel, spiritual, history of, seen by Daniel    —89
Israel stiffnecked    —177
Israel to be light of world    —14, 211
Israel the fountain of truth    —211
Israel wandered forty years    —173
Israel, why Babylonians thought oppression of was not sin    —65
Israel, why God could not protect    —131
Israelites, Daniel’s deliverance a fresh token to    —87
Issus, defeat of Medo-Persians at    —107


  J
Jacob saw Lord in Bethel    —137
Jacob’s trouble, two periods called time of    —65
Jacob, why name was changed    —71
Javan, history of Greece traced to    —181
Jealousy of three Hebrews    —42
Jehoiachin a prisoner in Babylon    —18, 39

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Jehoiachin taken from prison and exalted in Babylon    —63
Jehoiakim king of Judah    —36
Jehoiakim’s fatal mistake    —17
Jeremiah known to be a prophet in Babylon    —66
Jeremiah prophesied of captivity    —17, 118
Jeremiah prophesied of Elam’s revolt    —75
Jeremiah still urging people to leave Babylon    —167
Jeremiah, time of prophesying    —17
Jerome denounces papal dogmas    —239
Jesus born    —214
Jerusalem a prey to each succeeding kingdom    —177
Jerusalem, believers driven from    —131
Jerusalem, conditions in after return of Jews    —166
Jerusalem, Daniel’s window open toward    —84
Jerusalem destroyed by Pompey    —211
Jerusalem, discouraging conditions in    —177
Jerusalem, Jews in Babylon dread to return to    —119
Jerusalem, Jews restored to by Persians    —107
Jerusalem, small per cent of Jews returned to from Babylon    —120
Jerusalem subject to Persia, how long    —126
Jerusalem the bride of the Apocalypse    —169
Jerusalem, what Cyrus would have done for    —164
Jerusalem, why Israelites had trouble in rebuilding    —127
Jewish history, 457 B.C. an important date in    —235
Jewish nation intended to be everlasting    —38
Jewish nation, why separate    —14
Jews a small people during Babylon’s supremacy    —37
Jews, consternation of    —174
Jews dazzled by sins of Babylon    —155
Jews enslaved by Rome    —211
Jews failed to give message to world    —45
Jews finally scattered from Jerusalem    —131
Jews gave gospel to Medes and Persians    —94
Jews, Greek ideas imbibed by    —190
Jews, history of told in Babylon    —46
Jews, how God made use of in Babylon    —66
Jews in Babylon during siege    —67
Jews in Babylon, Persia had turned against    —172
Jews in Babylon mocked because of Sabbath    —65
Jews in Egypt, 40,000 to 60,000 slain    —196
Jews intended to be teachers of nations    —38
Jews sent to Babylon to spread gospel    —94
Jews, why lost as a nation    —261
Jews, why so few returned to Jerusalem    —120
John, condition of in vision    —159
John saw Christ in heavenly sanctuary    —97
John the Baptist, preaching of    —216
John, time of preaching established by history    —129
Jordan, Jesus at the    —129
Joseph taught Egyptian senators    —33
Joseph’s coat made in imitation of Lord’s vestments    —137
Josiah failed in training his sons    —17
Josiah’s reforms turn away God’s wrath    —17
Jubilee to follow Satan’s last efforts against God’s people    —176
Judah, captivity of an object lesson    —14
Juddas commanded to meet Alexander    —186
Judges and kings, many will be called to stand before    —27
Judgment, atonement a type of    —148
Judgment, time of    —100
Judgment, Daniel troubled over    —104
Judgment, God can take away    —57
Judgment, hour of proclaimed in 1844 A.D.    —100
Judgment, hour of taught in Babylon    —65
Judgment, how long in progress now    —102
Judgment, investigative, beginning of    —131
Judgment, life of fourth beast prolonged after    —102
Judgment, investigative, when begun    —133
Judgment of 1844 A.D., what it was, what it was not    —100
Judgment on Rome from God    —94
Judgment, opened in 1844 A.D.    —148
Judgment, opening of    —100
Judgment, reward of those who are found worthy in    —103
Judgment, Saviour pleads while names are read in    —101
Judgment scene, the    —88, 103
Judgment scene, only description of in Daniel 7    —100
Judgment, seen by Daniel    —252
Judgment, thrilling scenes of    —89
Jupiter Ammon, Alexander proclaimed son of    —108, 187
Justinian, author of code of laws    —233
Justinian, brilliant reign of    —231
Justinian, champion of Catholic faith    —230
Justinian, decree of goes into effect in 538 A.D.    —96
Justinian, laws of basis of national law to-day    —234
Justinian overthrew three kingdoms    —95


  K
Kindergarten for Israel, the sanctuary service a    —139
King, duty of subjects to obey    —40
King of Babylon, God put sword in hand of    —50
Kings made slaves to Nebuchadnezzar    —54
Kings of Medo-Persia, how Gabriel worked with    —162
Kings, Rome ruled by in early days    —204
Kingdom, fifth, established by God    —103
Kingdom of Babylon, decline of    —53
Kingdom of God set up    —35
Kingdom of Medes and Persians, double nature of    —105
Kingdoms, each had strong feature    —201
Kingdoms, each merged in succeeding    —93
Kingdoms, four, fate of    —102
Kingdoms, prophecy presents in various ways    —180
Knowledge, increase of    —260
Knowledge of Hebrew youth, extensive    —25
Knowledge, those who glory in will fall    —58


  L
Lake of fire, beast goes into    —102
Lamb, sacrifice of an object lesson    —140
Lamb’s body, what is done with    —141
Lamps, type of spirits before throne    —142
Language, God uses forcible    —72
Language, Greek, most used    —190
Language of God, what character can understand    —115
Language of heaven, wise men of Babylon did not know    —60
Language of heaven interpreted    —258
Language of Hebrew youth, choice and correct    —25
Language of Scriptures well chosen and in proper setting    —34
Languages of all nations taught in Babylon    —29
Laodice causes death of Berenice    —195
Laodice put away and recalled    —194
Latter rain promised by Zechariah    —169
Law, entire, seen by God’s people in 1844 A.D.    —148
Law of God changed    —263
Law of God discarded by papacy    —236
Law of God hung in sky    —255
Law of God, little horn laid hands on    —96
Law, Roman, the basis of law to-day    —209
Law the standard of judgment    —143
Learning, suppression of under papacy    —238

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Leaves of Nebuchadnezzar’s tree were poison    —56
Leopard and goat represent northern Greece    —193
Leopard, character of    —185
Leopard represented Greece    —185
Leopard represents sprightliness    —92
Leper, a touch healed    —157
Leper, offering of    —145
Lepidus, death of    —213
Letters of Samaritans complaining of Jews    —165
Liberty among God’s people    —128
Liberty, true, where only found    —207
Libraries in Babylon    —51
Life, Christ came to give    —87
Life, Christ so full of that eyes flash like lightning    —156
Life, Christ gives abundance of    —157
Life, Christian should be filled with    —157
Life, Daniel’s safe with God    —85
Life, Gabriel filled with    —157
Life, Greeks recognized power of    —182
Life of Daniel a rebuke to corrupt men in office    —154
Life, necessity of taking    —137
Life, physical, only one enemies of Daniel knew    —83
Life, spiritual, a reality    —83
Life, spiritual, to sever painful    —83
Light about tomb a type    —217
Light and darkness, spiritual, play of upon earth    —252
Light and darkness, Lord told Cyrus he was creator of    —78
Light, Daniel let it shine    —48
Light to Daniel greater after his experience with lions    —87
Lions with wings, meaning of    —90
Lion with wings shorn    —91
Lions, Daniel delivered from    —86
Lions’ den, Daniel in    —77, 154
Lions’ den, Darius and Daniel meet at    —85
Lions’ den, happy time for Daniel in    —86
Lions’ den, king hastened to in morning    —86
Lions’ den, mouth of sealed    —85
Lions’ friendliness to Daniel    —86
Literature and education of Rome borrowed from Greece    —209
Lives of men, angels record    —101
Lives of three Hebrews, why given    —47
Livy, quotation from    —205
Lollards, persecution of    —239
Lot, daughters of mentioned    —120
Loud cry, forty years from sealing message    —173
Love the motive power in God’s government    —41
Love of God, Jews blinded to    —220
Lucifer accuses God of injustice    —28
Lucifer, Gabriel took place of in heaven    —115
Lucifer the light bearer    —116
Lucifer tries making a kingdom    —28
Luther proclaims liberty of conscience    —239
Luther finds a Bible    —239
Lysimachus, Asia Minor given to    —109


  M
Macedonia subjected to Rome    —205
Magicians, effect of Daniel’s interpretation on    —73
Magnesia, battle of    —206
Malachi and John the Baptist, Greek history fills time between    —190
Malachi prophesied of John    —129
Malachi to Christ, Greece spans time from    —181
Manasseh and Christ compared    —16
Man deified in Rome    —208
Manhood, Hebrew youth respected their own    —25
Maniac, Nebuchadnezzar a    —58
Man, power of God in    —98
Man’s heart given to lion    —91
Mark of Babylonian worship    —65
Mark of false worship    —49
Marriage, law of repealed in France    —242
Mars, Romans traditional descendants of    —207
Martyrs, company of    —258
Mary’s training of Jesus    —16
Mathematics, students in Babylon reveled in    —29
Maxim, Hebrew, about education    —15
Maximian associated with Diocletian    —224
Mayor spends more than salary to get office    —81
Mears, Dr., statement from    —191
Medes and Persians knew about God    —82
Medes and Persians, kingdom given to    —74
Medes and Persians marching on Babylon    —66
Medes, date of meeting Jews    —77
Medes descendants of Japheth    —77
Medes, Israel scattered through cities of by Assyrians    —77
Medes knew of God of Hebrews    —77
Medes not a new power when they took Babylon    —77
Media and Persia compared    —105
Media and Persia knew Babylon was to fall    —66
Mediatorial work of Christ over    —253
Mediterranean, Javan settled in islands of    —181
Mediterranean, Roman power encircled    —206
Medo-Persia a daughter of Babylon    —180
Medo-Persia at its height during reign of Xerxes    —171
Medo-Persia, bear like character of    —92
Medo-Persia, blood-thirsty in its nature    —91
Medo-Persia, Daniel not a stranger to    —79
Medo-Persia different from Babylon    —180
Medo-Persia dropped by divine historian    —178
Medo-Persia, extent of in time of Ahasuerus    —105
Medo-Persia, 538 B.C. to 331 B.C.    —92
Medo-Persia followed Babylon    —34
Medo-Persia, probation passed for    —177
Medo-Persia represented by bear    —91
Medo-Persia represented by ram in Daniel 8    —92
Medo-Persia used by God to punish Babylon    —76
Medo-Persian supremacy, life of every individual in    —178
Meeting-place, Daniel had a special    —83
Melanchthon. Luther assisted by    —240
Men in power, how they work    —80
Mental powers of Hebrew youth, vigor of    —25
Mental strength, what will give    —262
Mercy, passing limit of God’s    —75
Mercy seat revealed to multitude    —130
Mercy still for Jews    —130
Message, first angel’s    —131
Message, first angel’s, extent of    —100
Message proclaimed in Babylon    —64
Messiah, spiritual nature of seen by few    —216
Message, time of first angel’s    —100
Message to change unheeded when men’s hearts are set    —67
Messiah, coming of taught by Jews in Babylon    —65
Messiah, meaning of in Hebrew    —128
Methods of studying Bible, Greek    —229
Michael appears to Daniel by the Tigris    —156
Milan, edict of    —227
Military despotism of Rome    —207
Miller, Wm., how mistaken    —133
Miller, Wm., studying prophecies of Daniel    —132
Mind elevates man above beasts    —57
Mind of God, everything good and beautiful has origin in    —181
Mind of man the shrine of Greece    —198
Minds, how Greece conquered    —193

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Minds, only two in universe    —187
Ministering spirits, angels’ work as    —101
Miracle in furnace a result of godly lives    —45
Missionaries, Hebrew youth were true    —45
Moab knew of decree of Babylon’s fall    —66
Modern writers, Greek philosophy in    —198
Mohammedan work in Middle Ages to be seen    —193
Mohammedanism, origin of    —246
Mohammedanism, Egypt the center of    —246
Moment, the supreme in Daniel’s life!    —32
Monarchs of Babylon, knowledge of God lost by    —64
Monarchy, absolute, supports papacy    —243
Monarchy, end of proudest on earth    —75
Monarchy in France, tyranny of    —243
Money, scarcity of in Jerusalem    —166
Money used unlawfully in best governments    —80
Money, where it comes from    —80
Monopolies in Rome    —81
Moors used by God to help deliver his people    —239
Mordecai, a cousin of Esther    —172
Mordecai, conspiracy reported by    —172
Mordecai in king’s gate    —172
Mordecai made chief counselor of Xerxes    —175
Mordecai’s kind act prepares for deliverance of Hebrews    —175
Moses forty years in wilderness    —173
Moses in presence of Deity    —138
Moses saw heavenly sanctuary    —89
Mosheim tells of overthrow of three kingdoms    —95
Most High, little horn spake against    —95
Mother of Saviour, every Jewish woman desired to be    —129
Mothers of Israel, result of teaching of    —46
Mothers teach children of captivity to come    —15
Mothers train children to live true in court of Babylon    —16
Motion made by God’s power    —72
Mount Horeb, Moses saw heaven from    —89
Mouth of little horn    —95
Mushroom, growth of little horn like    —95
Music at Belshazzar’s feast    —68
Music of the spheres    —103, 258
Mystery of iniquity at work in Rome    —96
Mystery of iniquity at work in Paul’s day    —221
Mystery of iniquity, Heaven saw Babylon as the    —180
Mystery of iniquity held full sway in Babylon    —55
Mystery of iniquity, prophecy deals with    —222
Mysteries, Daniel understood    —25
Mysteries of Greek worship    —182
Mythology of Greece, graduates know    —198


  N
Nabonadius and Belshazzar, important events during reign of    —64
Nabonadius made king after Evil-merodach    —63
Nabonadius not in Babylon when it was taken    —75
Nabopolassar reigns two years with Nebuchadnezzar    —31
Name, change of means change of character    —71
Names, Greek, replaced Jewish    —191
Names in Israel an expression of character    —71
Names of children chosen under inspiration    —191
Napoleon Bonaparte assumes control of France    —243
Napoleon, conquests of    —244
Napoleon proclaimed emperor    —245
Napoleon, reforms of    —244
National events, only unbiased record of in Bible    —161
National events, record kept of in heaven    —62
Nation, when destruction comes to    —62
Nations, all, on banks of river Ulai    —117
Nations a scaffolding for God’s people    —189
Nations brought to Jews to learn truth    —211
Nations, Daniel saw history of    —89
Nations, many, knew who would overthrow Babylon    —66
Natural elements worshiped by Medes and Persians    —77
Natural heart, liberty to follow    —76
Nature, evil, must die to make body fit for God to dwell in    —135
Nature, Greeks studied    —182
Nature, Greeks worshiped    —182
Nature, habits of Persians brought them in close touch with    —77
Nature, how to interpret    —182
Nature, human interpretation of    —199
Nature leads to God    —156
Nature opened to mind of Christ    —192
Nature, power of God in    —98, 258
Nature study lacking in Rome    —208
Nebuchadnezzar acknowledges God at Dura    —46
Nebuchadnezzar a man of war    —50
Nebuchadnezzar, anxiety of concerning dream    —33
Nebuchadnezzar could have saved Jerusalem    —37
Nebuchadnezzar degraded by God    —57
Nebuchadnezzar driven from men    —56
Nebuchadnezzar, extent of his kingdom    —28
Nebuchadnezzar, God revealed himself to    —37
Nebuchadnezzar, God working for salvation of    —59
Nebuchadnezzar highly educated    —29
Nebuchadnezzar humiliated by Daniel’s interpreting dream    —39
Nebuchadnezzar personally examined students    —29
Nebuchadnezzar recognizes Christ in furnace    —44
Nebuchadnezzar saw earthly kingdoms; Daniel saw heavenly also    —88
Nebuchadnezzar, success of    —51
Nebuchadnezzar tests the royal princes    —25
Nebuchadnezzar used words of Satan    —57
Nebuchadnezzar, wealth of    —51
Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams    —28
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of image    —30
Nehemiah a cupbearer to king in Babylon    —127
Nehemiah goes to Jerusalem    —126, 177
Nehemiah stirring people to activity    —177
Nehemiah, troublous times in building described by    —127
Nelson defeats Napoleon in Egypt    —244
Nervous strain of office duties, how Daniel had strength to meet    —84
Nicene council an important gathering    —229
Nicene creed, when adopted    —227
Nobility lost when one chooses Satan    —84
North and South in Greece, attempt to unite    —194


  O
Obedience to nature’s laws, how shown    —25
Object of Persia’s existence    —161
Octavius comes into power in Rome    —213
Offering a lamb, details of    —139
Offerings, Israel failed to see meaning of    —139
Offerings, Israel in Egypt did not see Saviour in    —138
Offerings of Cain and Abel    —136
Offerings, meaning of to Adam    —136
Offerings represented different phases of Christ’s work    —142

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Office-holders, Daniel an example to    —79
Old Testament translated into Greek    —192
One-man power, Romans glad to accept    —213
One week, time allotted to Jewish nation    —130
Opportunities for blessings, God gives    —76
Opportunities lost by sons of Josiah    —17
Opportunity, God’s    —85
Opposition between northern and southern Greece    —193
Oppressed, God on side of    —111
Oppression of Jews in Babylon    —64
Oppression of Jews by Rome    —111, 216
Order of heavenly bodies a type    —258
Organization of Babylonian kingdom    —78
Organization, peace of kingdom depends upon    —78
Origen, philosophy of Greeks adopted by    —229
Ostrogoths plucked up in 538 A.D.    —95
Overeating, effects of    —22
Overthrow of Babylon, vivid description of in Bible    —74


  P
Pagan though, Bible interpreted according to    —236
Pagan Rome, cruelty of    —113
Pagan society, principles of in early church    —112
Pagan worship must have some image    —41
Paganism at its height in time of Christ    —111
Paganism, cruelty of    —96
Paganism crushed    —233
Paganism in Christian garments    —225
Paganism in the church    —221
Paganism in the heart-a new device    —221
Paganism, strength of tested at cross    —218
Paganism takes form of Christianity    —96
Palace at Shushan, feast given by Xerxes at    —171
Palace at Shushan, description of    —171
Palace, Persians rush for the    —74
Palestine at the gateway of the nations    —196
Palestine, Mohammedans in    —247
Palestine, wisdom in choosing as home of Jews    —211
Papacy born on banks of Nile    —236
Papacy, Constantine and Justinian instrumental in forming    —234
Papacy, development of gradual    —235
Papacy, evils of past ages concentrated in    —109
Papacy, foundations of    —236
Papacy, leading features of    —208
Papacy, power of greater than any preceding    —109
Papacy, seat of in Rome    —230
Papacy seen by Daniel in vision    —251
Papacy supported by civil power    —233
Papacy, 1260 years allotted to    —237
Papacy the masterpiece of Satan    —109
Papacy, where it got its power    —110
Papacy, work of portrayed    —109
Papal hierarchy, what paved the way for    —208
Papal Rome, cruelty of    —113
Papal supremacy, end of in 1798 A.D.    —245
Pardon for sinners    —101
Pardon, sinners do not choose    —155
Passover, children to understand    —144
Passover, Christ our    —147
Passover, greatest in history    —17
Patricians and plebeians, struggles between    —204
Patricians of Rome in power    —204
Paul, condition of in vision    —159
Paul preached gospel in Rome    —96
Paul wrote of mystery of iniquity    —96
Peace depends upon organization    —78
Peace within before peace without    —128
People of God, history of furnishes only unbroken thread    —161
Penalty for not worshiping image    —40
Penalty must follow command    —41
Penalty of sin, sinners choose    —155
Pentecostal experience, why not often repeated    —122
Persecution ceases at beginning of time of end    —263
Persecution, deliverer prepared beforehand in time of    —173
Persecution in a. d. 34 A.D.    —131
Persecution in Jerusalem, results of    —219
Persecution of Jews in Babylon    —65
Persecution, permitted to come on Jews under Xerxes    —173
Persecution under Rome    —94
Persia, position of in history    —105
Persian kings, briefness of history of    —160
Persians enter Babylon    —74
Persians, Gabriel still guarding    —166
Persians knew what power would overthrow Babylon    —66
Persians, temperance of    —78
Persians understood nature    —77
Petitions of Daniel so pressing that Christ helped Gabriel    —158
Petitions, pressing higher    —121
Pharisees and Platoists say and do not    —184
Philip of Macedon, death of    —185
Philosophical study, Alexandria the center of    —229
Philosophy of Greeks, death the result of    —187
Philosophy of Plato, error in    —183
Philosophy of Plato, Jews mingled with Bible    —183
Physical laws, remnant obedient to    —262
Physical limits growth of spiritual    —219
Physicians not allowed to practice    —239
Physique of Persians, rugged    —78
Personal coming of Saviour preached in 1833-1844 A.D.    —132
Perversion of truth brings death    —61
Peter, why name was changed    —71
Plague, righteous do not feel effects of    —254
Plan for each one, God has    —47
Planet, composition of    —145
Plato, influence of teachings of    —183
Plato, philosophy of, higher criticism a revival of    —229
Plato the intellectual leader of modern writers    —183
Plato’s writings have replaced Bible    —183
Plot to destroy Daniel    —82
Policy, each of four kingdoms had distinct    —236
Policy man, not necessary for a business man to be    —79
Policy of government changed by Constantine    —228
Policy of papacy    —236
Policy, Satan tries on early church    —111
Politician, Daniel not a    —79
Politicians, Darius in danger from    —80
Politicians robbing government in Daniel’s time    —80
Politics, influence of Christians felt in    —224
Pompey, death of    —211
Pompey led the army of Rome    —210
Pontifex Maximus, the highest religious officer in Rome    —208
Poor and sick, provision for in returning to Jerusalem    —124
Poor oppressed in Babylon    —38
Pope, kings made to bow to    —237
Position, holding one does not show superiority    —54
Position of Daniel a severe test    —80
Position of Daniel under Darius    —118
Positions, buying of in Daniel’s time    —80

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Power in touch of Christ’s hand    —157
Power of God, how the Jews lost    —37
Power of God imputed to heathen gods    —91
Power of God in nature    —258
Power of God pervades space    —98
Power of God, what it does in nature    —98
Power of little horn not destroyed    —97
Powers of good and evil in full play in Christ’s time    —110
Power of Rome, kings bow to    —237
Prζtorian guard suppressed by Constantine    —226
Prayer, Daniel always had time for    —118
Prayer, Daniel seen in three times a day    —83
Prayer, Daniel’s wonderful    —120
Prayer of Daniel seemingly unheard    —158
Prayer of Daniel, why recorded    —119
Prayer, stopping too soon    —121
Prayer, why Daniel sought God in    —83
Prayer, windows of heaven open to    —47
Prayers of saints added to incense    —142
Preparation for Christ’s coming in heaven    —255
Present, God deals with men and nations in    —73
Presidents over princes, Daniel made chief of    —78
Pressure, equalizing    —84
Pressure, physical, 15 pounds to square inch    —84
Price paid for redemption    —146
Pride, Belshazzar rebuked for    —71
Pride causes a fall    —58
Pride, God able to abase    —59
Pride of Alexander    —187
Pride, worldly, God will not sustain    —58
Priest in household, what decided succession of    —137
Priesthood, duties of among Greeks    —183
Priest’s work a prophecy of Christ’s in heaven    —139
Priests left work in temple to watch games    —191
Prime minister, king’s confidence in    —82
Prince of princes, Rome to stand up against    —201
Princes, Daniel obliged to deal with all    —80
Princes, design of understood by Darius    —84
Princes flatter Darius    —82
Princes, 120, placed over provinces by Darius    —78
Princes, king spent whole day pleading with    —85
Principle, adherence to always honored by God    —25
Principle, being true to in Babylon    —38
Principle, Daniel firm as a rock to    —48
Principle overlooked by Cain’s followers    —137
Principles, application of    —210
Principles, each succeeding empire founded on same    —93
Principles, eternal, at stake on plain of Dura    —42
Prophecies given to Daniel after his night with the lions    —87
Principles of Babylonian government represented by roots of tree    —93
Principles of God’s government an absorbing theme at Dura    —46
Principles of government to be gained from history of Babylon    —60
Principles of Reformation, result of rejecting    —240
Principles, true, Belshazzar’s departure from    —71
Probation, end of    —253
Probation ends during seventh plague    —254
Probation, nations have a time of    —62
Probation, one year of granted Nebuchadnezzar    —57
Proclamation of freedom among Jews needed    —128
Proclamation of freedom to Jews, first act of Cyrus    —162
Promises in Zechariah, glorious    —169
Promises to Abraham, a few had clung to    —216
Promotion, God gives    —108
Prophecies, Jews did not study    —129
Prophecies, losing faith in after 1844 A.D.    —132
Prophecies of Daniel a key to history    —13
Prophecies of Daniel explained to Alexander in Jerusalem    —186
Prophecies of Daniel 8, beauty in    —115
Prophecies of Daniel referred to by Christ    —13
Prophecies of second advent, we should study    —129
Prophecy about contention between Medo-Persia and Greece    —106
Prophecy gives national history    —209
Prophecy of Babylon’s humiliation    —34
Prophecy, when Rome became prominent in    —210
Prophet, no family in Israel could be trusted to bring up    —191
Prophet, why Israel was so long without    —190
Prophetic periods explained to Daniel    —264
Prophets, false    —116
Prophets, truth given to through Gabriel    —116
Prosperity in Israel when they began to build Jerusalem    —169
Prosperity of Daniel during reigns of Darius and Cyrus    —87
Protestantism, leaders in converted at universities    —26
Protestantism, principles of true proclaimed at Dura    —46
Protestantism, the birth of, a wonderful deliverance    —238
Provinces, 120 came under Medo-Persia at fall of Babylon    —105
Provisions for 20 years in Babylon when siege began    —69
Pseudo-Smerdis discovered and slain    —66
Pseudo-Smerdis the Artaxerxes of Ezra 4:7    —165
Ptolemy Dionysius, brother of Cleopatra    —211
Ptolemy, Egypt given to    —109
Ptolemy Epiphanes takes throne of Egypt    —197
Ptolemy Epiphanes, kings of Macedon and Syria plot against    —202
Ptolemy Euergetes invades Greece, Syria, and Babylon    —195
Ptolemy Philadelphus, Alexandrian Library founded by    —192
Ptolemy Philadelphus, successor of Ptolemy in Egypt    —189
Ptolemy Philopater on Egyptian throne    —195
Ptolemy Philopater victorious over Antiochus Magnus    —196
Ptolemy surnamed Soter    —189
Publishing the news of Daniel’s deliverance    —87
Puritans, descendants of Lollards    —239


  Q
Questions, children of Jews expected to ask    —144


  R
Rabbis, Greek philosophy and laws of God mingled by    —191
Rainbow above throne of God    —101
Rainbow painted on the clouds    —255
Ram, definiteness of interpretation of    —105
Ram, no help for against goat    —162
Ram, represented Medo-Persia    —91
Ram, significance of uneven horns of    —105
Ram with two horns same as bear    —105
Reason exalted above God to-day    —242
Reason given by God    —57

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Reason, Greek worship of    —209
Rebuilding Jerusalem a symbol of gospel work now    —127
Record in Esther, why preserved    —175
Redeemer promised in Eden    —136
Redemption, nations as actors in plan of    —203
Reformation in Germany, result of    —243
Reformation, forty years sealed fate of in Germany    —173
Reformation, offer in same as to Jews in Babylon    —240
Reformation, principles of    —240
Reformation, Rome receded before march of    —240
Reformation, seeds of scattered by Waldenses    —26
Reformation, seen by Daniel    —251
Reign of Nebuchadnezzar, close of    —62
Reign of Nebuchadnezzar prosperous    —62
Reign of Terror in France    —242
Religion basis of government in heathen nations    —35
Religion, Daniel condemned for    —82
Religion, Greek, accepted in Syria    —190
Religion of Babylon, spread of    —55
Religion of Jesus, graduates do not know    —198
Religion of Justinian the religion of most countries to-day    —234
Religion secondary to government in Rome    —208
Religion the strong feature of Babylon    —201
Religious errors of Babylon renewed by Rome    —93
Religious liberty, principles of made known in Babylon    —46
Remnant church, Gabriel sent to reveal truth to    —116
Remnant saved from Babylon    —177
Rent, Nehemiah’s lessons on    —127
Repentance, fate of sinner without    —73
Repentance, Nebuchadnezzar had time for    —57
Reports, Daniel accurate in    —81
Representatives at cross from four quarters of earth    —217
Representatives from all nations visited Judea in its prosperity    —181
Representation on earth, God always has some    —115
Republican government, Rome a    —204, 206
Republicanism, what Rome understood to be    —205
Resources, God limitless in    —192
Response to decree, feeble    —125
Responsibilities, Babylon a strange school to fit for    —24
Responsibilities, who are fitted to bear    —25
Responsibility, men must bear    —58
Restoration of temple stopped by Samaritans    —125
Rιsumι of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign    —62
Rιsumι of 2300 and 1260 days    —235
Resurrection, first fruits typified    —147
Resurrection just before Christ’s second coming    —254
Resurrection of dead when Christ arose    —254
Resurrection, promise of    —87
Resurrection, special, who will be raised in    —254
Retirement on the Tigris, Daniel sought    —155
Revelation, book of, the complement of Daniel    —37
Revelation to Daniel concerning latter days    —159
Reverence for God or his people, none in Babylon    —104
Revolution in France repeats story of Babylon    —81
Rich exalted in Babylon    —38
Righteousness by faith taught in Babylon    —65
Righteousness by works, what it led to    —237
River gates of Babylon left open    —74
River walls on banks of Ulai    —117
Robe, scarlet, placed on Daniel    —74
Roman army invade Africa    —231
Roman guard fell before Gabriel    —115
Roman kingdom, beginning of    —203
Roman kingdom, division of    —230
Romans a sturdy race    —203
Romans called robbers    —203
Rome, absolute power of    —96
Rome a long-lived kingdom    —97
Rome a universal kingdom during life of Christ    —94
Rome built on Babylonian principles    —81
Rome center of world in days of Christ    —96
Rome, Christ came to personally    —94
Rome, Christian, more cruel than pagan    —96
Rome combined characteristics of three kingdoms before it    —202
Rome crucified Jesus    —94
Rome divided into ten parts    —35, 94
Rome dropping into ruin    —95
Rome exalting itself above God    —112
Rome explained minutely to Daniel    —92, 201
Rome followed Grecia    —35
Rome greatest enemy of God’s people    —200
Rome helped by Satan    —203
Rome helps Ptolemy Epiphanes    —197
Rome, no beast terrible enough to represent    —92
Rome nominally Christian    —112
Rome, no one dared oppose    —237
Rome, opportunity to accept God    —94
Rome, pagan, why she fell    —95
Rome, principles of counterfeit government strong in    —93
Rome succeeded Greece in 161 A.D.    —93
Rome, territory of    —110
Rome to last till end of time    —35
Roots of Babylonian tree still alive    —93
Ruin of soul, Satan must suffer for    —152
Ruler of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar to learn who was real    —52
Rumors of enemy’s coming, two    —67
Rural population, decline of among Romans    —207
Russia and France friends in Napoleon’s time    —247
Russo-Turkish war    —248


  S
Sabbath changed    —236, 263
Sabbath commandment seen in 1844 A.D.    —148
Sabbath desecrated in Jerusalem    —177
Sabbath, little horn attempted to change    —96
Sabbath preserved peculiarity of Jews in Babylon    —64
Sabbath proclaimed on plains of Dura    —46
Sabbath, weekly, atonement different from    —149
Sabbath, why Jews ceased from traffic on    —177
Sabbathkeepers, always a few during darkest times    —238
Sacred vessels, why brought to feast of Belshazzar    —68
Sacred vessels watched by angels    —68
Sacrilegious mirth, a Witness in every scene of    —76
Sackcloth, Hebrews in Shushan put on    —174
Sacrifice and oblation done away    —130
Sacrifice an object lesson to Israel    —136
Sacrifices offered in Eden    —136
Sacrifices of Greeks of no value    —182
Saints, little horn made war with    —95
Saints, worship of begun    —237
Samaritans complain of Jews to Cambyses    —165
Sanctuaries, three mentioned in Bible    —134
Sanctuary, a study of    —134
Sanctuary, changes in heavenly    —252
Sanctuary, Christ leaves heavenly    —253

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Sanctuary, cleansing of heavenly    —147
Sanctuary, directions for building    —138
Sanctuary, heavenly, Moses saw in mount    —138
Sanctuary in heaven, Daniel saw Father and Son in    —89
Sanctuary in heaven, seen by Moses and John    —89, 134
Sanctuary in heaven, when Christ entered    —133
Sanctuary, Israel had no conception of work done in heavenly    —138
Sanctuary, light received on in 1844 A.D.    —264
Sanctuary of God meant temple at Jerusalem to Jews    —119
Sanctuary on earth typical    —132
Sanctuary on earth a model of heavenly    —134
Sanctuary, period of cleansing began in 1844 A.D.    —147
Sanctuary question understood after 1844 A.D.    —132
Sanctuary taken to mean earth in 1844 A.D.    —132
Sanctuary, what cleansing of meant to Jews in Babylon    —119
Sanctuary, why God had a visible one among children of Israel    —138
Sardinia surrenders to Belisarius    —232
Satan and his host, 144,000 take place of in heaven    —257
Satan challenging government of God    —41
Satan defeated with Babylon    —75
Satan destroyed    —152
Satan, every movement of counteracted by God    —47
Satan excluded from councils in heaven    —218
Satan exultant at unification of world under Augustus    —214
Satan, God watches every movement of    —47
Satan lost hope at cross    —218
Satan met with representatives of worlds    —29
Satan overstepped the bounds in Dura    —46
Satan represented world in councils of heaven    —204
Satan’s plan for each nation    —216
Satan, sins to be laid upon    —151
Satan the darkness bearer    —116
Satan triumphant in Shushan    —174
Satan urging rulers of Babylon to sin    —69
Satan, why God did not destroy at first    —41
Satan’s struggles with early church    —112
Saved, three companies of    —258
Saviour crucified under fourth power    —97
Saviour, the Jews expecting    —216
Scapegoat, fate of    —150
Scarlet, antitype of at cross    —146
Scarlet wool a pledge    —145
Schemes against truth promote it    —192
Schemes of men and Satan fail    —175
Schools, Christ could not hear voice of Father in    —191
Schools, children not left in pagan    —112
Schools established by Moors    —239
Schools, Greek philosophy in Roman    —229
Schools not allowed under papacy    —238
Schools in Babylon, what might have been done by    —164
Schools of Babylon, art and science taught in    —29
Schools of Babylon, traits developed in    —32
Schools of prophets, other nations should have sent to    —197
Schools of the prophets in Babylon    —163
Schools, why Christ never entered    —191
Science, Daniel’s knowledge of    —20
Science, god of exalted in Babylon    —38
Science, no realm left unexplored    —260
Scientific men honored by Rome    —213
Scientists fail to see God in suns, planets, and systems    —255
Scriptures, searching for hidden meaning of    —179
Scriptures their own best commentary    —105
Sea or waters denote people or nations    —90
Seal of God, upon whom placed    —253
Sealing work    —248
Second advent, Gabriel will give men signs of    —133
Second advent will surprise world    —129
Secret societies, golden cup a familiar symbol in    —55
Secrets of God, man can understand some of    —113
Siege of Babylon began in spring    —67
Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar    —14
Seleucidζ conquered by Rome    —210
Seleucus, Syria given to    —109
Self-exaltation in early church    —112
Self-forgetfulness of Daniel    —32
Self-righteousness, Daniel’s prayer a rebuke to all    —121
Senate of Rome, power of    —207
Senate of Rome restored by Augustus    —213
Separation, what causes between God and man    —73
Sepulcher of Christ, women at    —86
Service, Christ now performing his    —152
Service in earthly sanctuary a shadow    —134
Seven denotes complete Spirit    —142
Seven weeks of Dan. 8:14, by whom explained    —124
Seventy weeks, beginning of    —123, 126
Seventy weeks, how divided by angel    —123
Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-nego made rulers    —39
Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-nego, trial of    —41-45
Shepherd in Israel, Daniel a true    —121
Shinar chosen as site of Babylon    —28
Showbread represented man’s dependence    —143
Shushan, Daniel lived at    —79
Shushan, Daniel lived at after Belshazzar took kingdom    —75
Shushan, Daniel’s home in palace at    —104
Shushan perplexed over decree    —174
Shushan the capital of Xerxes    —171
Simplicity of Daniel in court of Babylon    —33
Sin abounds during easy times    —127
Sin, Adam reminded of in every falling leaf    —136
Sin, earth, air, and water tainted by    —145
Sin, effect of living in sight of    —163
Sin, end of    —103
Sin of Israel, Daniel placed himself under load of    —120
Sin revealed by Holy Spirit    —141
Sin, sinner destroyed with    —141
Sinner, God’s attitude toward    —73
Sinner, God wishes to separate from sin    —141
Sins all known to angels and other worlds    —101
Sins of Israel forgotten    —152
Sins of redeemed borne by Satan    —152
Sins, past, not taken into account    —73
Sins, record of kept in heaven    —101
Sixty-nine weeks, end of    —128
Sixty-nine weeks fulfilled    —129
Skeleton, correspondence to in Bible    —189
Skepticism in full force now    —199
Skill of Daniel a wonder to world    —79
Slaughter of all Jews in kingdom of Medo-Persia ordered    —174
Slavery, how enforced by Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece    —184
Slavery, spirit of cultivated in Babylon    —33
Slaves, Corsicans and Sardinians sold as    —205
Slaves for debt, Jews held their own brethren as    —128
Slaves, 150,000 Greeks sold as    —206
Smerdis commanded building in Jerusalem to cease    —165

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Smerdis, God watching every move of    —166
Smerdis, son of Cambyses    —165
Solar systems revolve about throne of God    —98
Solomon, kings paid tribute to Israel in days of    —197
Solomon’s temple, site of hidden by rubbish    —125
Son of God among people three and one half years    —130
Song of saved, harmony in    —257
Songs of Hebrew children    —19
Songs required of Jews in Babylon    —65
Sophistries of Greece, fate of those entrapped by    —199
Soul connection between Daniel and God    —83
Soul temple, how it is cleansed    —141
Souls saved from Babylon    —64
Southern Greece, Egyptian principles in    —193
Spain subjected to Rome    —205
Spies watching Daniel    —84
Spirit of Daniel made him prominent    —79
Spiritual lessons in Daniel to    —154
Spirit manifestations, origin of    —116
Spirit of Christ seen in Daniel    —121
Spirit of God working in courts    —189
Spirit of life, how driven out    —112
Spirit of prophecy a gift to be coveted    —115
Spirit of prophecy among Jews in Babylon    —65
Spirit of prophecy cherished by Greeks    —182
Spirit of prophecy fell on deaf cars    —120
Spiritual Israel, graphic description of    —176
Spiritual life of Daniel an actual thing    —83
Spiritual worship, God’s people met for    —183
St. Bartholomew, massacre of    —242
Star of Bethlehem, Gabriel in    —115
Stars, plan of redemption told by    —255
Statesman compared to grass    —79
Statesman, Daniel a noble    —79
Stephen stoned    —131
Stone cut out without hands, meaning of    —36
Stones by Jordan, children expected to ask about    —144
Strategy Satan tries on early church    —111
Strength leaves body in vision    —159
Strength, where Daniel found    —79
Stronghold not impregnable to God    —69
Struggle between good and evil represented by light and darkness    —78
Stubble, wise men of Babylon as    —34
Student of prophecy, Daniel 7 important to Students to-day worship Greek gods    —182
Study, Daniel always had time for    —118
Subjects, lives of in king’s hands    —54
Sufferings of God’s people, Daniel sick as he beheld    —113
Sufferings of Satan, what will make lighter    —228
Summary of history in Dan. 8:14    —123
Sun, Cain’s followers offered to    —137
Sunday law, the first    —227
Sun rising, priest stood with back toward    —150
Sun-worshipers, Babylonians were    —65
Supremacy of Rome to be shortened    —201
Surprise, God never taken by    —76
Swords fall broken    —175
Symbols, Gabriel drops in explaining Greece    —179
Symbols hard for Daniel to understand    —179
Sympathy of subjects, strength of kingdom in proportion to    —78
Sympathy with heaven, Daniel was in    —85


  T
Tabernacle a shadow of heavenly sanctuary    —138
Tabernacle, pattern of given to Moses in Mount Horeb    —89
Tabernacle, why God built earthly    —138
Tatnai commanded to help Jews    —167
Tatnai warns Jews to stop building    —167
Tatnai writes Darius to stop building in Jerusalem    —167
Taxes, exorbitant, forced from Babylonian subjects    —54
Taxes, excessive in Babylon    —38
Taxes, politicians turn to personal account    —80
Teachings of Bible changed    —236
Teachings of Greeks, Jews prepared to accept    —191
Teachers of world, God intended Israel to be    —164
Teachers, remnant church will be    —259
Teachers to shine    —259
Teachings of Old Testament counterfeited by Greece    —184
Temperance    —19
Temperance, foundation for in Bible    —21
Temperance one fruit of Spirit    —48
Temperance, test of the three Hebrew children in    —20
Temple, Alexander visits    —186
Temple, building of helped from royal treasury    —126
Temple burned by Titus    —131
Temple, Christ left two days before crucifixion    —134
Temple, Grecians in    —94
Temple, heavenly, way into made manifest by Christ    —135
Temple, new, less glorious than first one    —169
Temple of body, Christ to destroy and raise in three days    —135
Temple of Solomon, Moslem mosque on site of    —247
Temple, people leave to build houses for themselves    —125, 166
Temple, Ptolemy Philopater’s attempt to profane    —196
Temple, presence of God withdrawn from    —130
Temple, second, old men disappointed over    —165
Temple services neglected    —177
Temple to be filled with glory when Christ should come    —169
Temple, treasures from taken to Babylon    —18
Temple, work of restoring begun    —125
Territory of Alexander’s generals    —188
Terror caused by rending of veil of temple    —135
Test, a second given three Hebrews    —42
Test of Hebrew youth, result of    —25
Test, the final, what it will be    —49
Tests, different to Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Daniel    —47
Testimony sent to Pharaoh by Ezekiel    —51
Text-book for children, the Bible was the    —111
Theological factions, church torn by in days of Constantine    —229
Thermopylζ, Salamis, and Plateζ, Persians defeated at    —106
Thief forgiven on cross    —146
Thoughts, brilliant, from God    —58
Thoughts, Rome peering into    —97
Thoughts, secret, not hid from Heaven    —101
Thousand years, Satan a captive during    —151
Throne of God, Ezekiel’s description of    —98
Throne of God living    —98
Throne of God, mercy and justice mingle at    —101
Throne of God the center of creation    —98
Thunder, voice of God like    —156
Tiberius Cζsar succeeds Augustus    —216
Tiberius, character of    —216
Tigris, Daniel’s last vision by    —250
Time, importance of knowing    —76
Time of end, beginning of    —14
Time of end, details of events in    —250
Time of end distinctly marked    —260

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Time of end, Gabriel explains    —114
Time of end, meaning of    —263
Time of end, remnant to be developed in    —261
Time of events, Daniel could not understand    —113
Time of trouble in Babylon    —65
Time of trouble, people must stand by faith in    —253
Time to flee when Cyrus was delayed    —67
Time waits not for man or nation    —178
Times and laws, little horn thinks to change    —95
Times of trouble, two    —65
Tithe, Jews begin to pay again    —177
Titus captures Jerusalem    —131
Toleration established in France    —245
Tomb of Christ, Roman seal on    —94
Tomb of Saviour, Gabriel at    —115
Tours, battle of stopped Mohammedan progress    —246
Traditions of men, what formed    —183
Trajan, Constantine less virtuous than    —227
Treasure taken by Rome in tribute    —206
Tree cut down, but roots remained    —93
Tree of knowledge known of by tradition    —52
Tree of life known of by tradition    —52
Tree, the, a striking symbol    —52
Trees in Babylon from every country    —52
Trial, result of ten-days’    —22
Trial, trusting God in time of    —47
Trials, how to equalize pressure of    —84
Trifling, liberty to indulge in    —76
Triumph, Daniel saw at end    —259
True to God, what it means to be    —24
Trumpets of Rev. 8 symbol of Rome in divided state    —94
Trusts in early church    —112
Trusts in Rome    —81
Truth brings life    —61
Truth cast down to ground    —112
Truth implanted in infant hearts    —111
Truth, Jerusalem to be called a city of    —169
Truth, Jews failed to give    —37
Truth, men led by angels to take positions for    —158
Truth, partial acceptance of brings tyranny    —245
Truth, Plato assented to, but did not live    —184
Truth, Satan seeks new devices to overthrow    —221
Truth, seeds of planted in Babylon    —56
Truth, triumph of    —103
Truth, triumph of under Xerxes    —175
Truth vindicated before Belshazzar    —71
Turkey a national guidepost    —248
Turkey, how she has been helped    —248
Turkey the sick man of the east    —247
Turks, countries that receive tribute from    —247
Turks to move to Palestine    —247
1260 years announced by Christ to Daniel    —262
1260 years, church struggles for existence during    —234
1260 years, end of    —245, 264
2300 days, 457 B.C. to 1844 A.D.    —100
Type and antitype, rιsumι of    —147
Tyranny in government of Babylon    —54
Tyranny in Persian kingdom, tendency to    —180
Tyranny papal    —41
Tyranny repetition of Babylon    —41
Tyre resisted Nebuchadnezzar for 13 years    —50
Tyranny, papal    —41
Tyranny to-day from same root as in Babylon    —54
Tyranny, when it rules    —29
Tyre and Sidon knew Babylon was to fall    —66
Tyre conquered by Nebuchadnezzar    —51


  U
Ulai contains water of life    —117
Ulai, Daniel standing by in vision    —105
Ulai represents river of time    —117
Union of church and state, continuance of    —36
Unions in early church    —112
United States following history of Babylon now    —81
Universal kingdoms, no more after the four    —35
Universe watching three Hebrews    —43
Universes, space filled with    —258
Universities, Waldenses in    —26
Universities, worldly, what would fit our young men to enter    —26
Usury, Nehemiah’s lessons on    —127


  V
Vacuum abhorred in spiritual things    —122
Vandals, Arianism favored by    —231
Vandals, plucked up in 534 A.D.    —95
Vashti, story of    —171
Vegetable world to be freed from curse    —145
Veil of temple rent    —130, 134
Vengeance, time of Lord’s    —76
Virgin Mary made a mediator    —237
Vessels of the sanctuary carried to Babylon    —14
Vessels of Jewish temple returned to Jerusalem    —125, 232
Vice, attitude man of God must assume toward    —81
Victory, seeming defeat turned into    —167
Vileness, Babylon the personification of    —163
Violence, Cyrus restrained from by Gabriel    —165
Vision, condition of person in    —158
Vision, events seen in Daniel’s last    —250
Vision of Daniel 7, when given    —89
Vision of Daniel 8    —104
Vision of Daniel 8, why it begins with Media and Persia    —105
Vision of Ezekiel concerning Egypt known to Nebuchadnezzar    —51
Vision of Ezekiel regarding Egypt    —51
Vision of God’s people darkened by sin    —119
Visions of Daniel    —88
Voice of Christ, quality of    —156
Voice of God at Jesus’ baptism    —129
Voice of God, Daniel knew    —32
Voice of God speaking to Christ in temple    —156
Vote, $3,500 paid for    —80


  W
Wages, Nehemiah’s lessons on    —127
Waldenses in worldly universities    —26
Waldenses, persecution of    —238
Wall, handwriting on the    —68
Walls of Jerusalem on fire    —168
Walls of Jerusalem rebuilt    —177
Water worshiped by Medes and Persians    —77
Waters of Ulai, Christ presides over    —117
Wave offering, resurrected dead presented as, at ascension    —254
Weakening of Babylon, reason for    —91
Weak to be as David    —169
Weakness, Nebuchadnezzar confesses    —59
Weakness of Nebuchadnezzar’s institutions    —34
Wealth, people who glory in will fall    —58
Weapons in hand, Jews worked with    —127
Week, length of changed to ten days in France    —242
Wickedness, increase of in Babylon    —104
Wickedness in Medo-Persian court checked by angels    —180
Wilderness, Gabriel ministered to Saviour in    —115
Will, how to have a strong    —48
Window, Daniel prayed aloud by open    —84
Windows open toward Jerusalem    —83
Winds a symbol of war    —89
Winds of strife held by angels    —248
Winds, strife of four    —89
Wings of eagle on lion    —90

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Wings of leopard    —92
Wire-pulling in Daniel’s time    —80
Wisdom and knowledge, where are hid treasures of    —58
Wisdom, Daniel had opportunity to exalt his own    —33
Wisdom of Chaldeans, how God proved his wisdom superior to    —37
Wisdom of Hebrew youth not attained by chance    —26
Wisdom, the beginning of    —26
Wisdom, why given to Babylonians    —61
Wise men, God gives them first trial    —52
Wise men, Nebuchadnezzar threatens    —31
Wise men unable to save Babylon    —34
Wit and learning in court of Babylon    —51
Woman, figure of used to represent God’s cause    —173
Wonder to world, God’s people to be a    —38
Woods, Christ wandered in    —192
Word of God a lamp and guide    —76
Words can not be changed    —102
World heard truth through fidelity of three men    —45
World to be warned in troublous times    —127
World warned in 30 years after ascension    —218
Worldliness in Roman church    —96
Worldly training, qualities produced by    —19
Worship, Daniel gave to God    —81
Worship enforced by civil power is idolatry    —41
Worship enforced by Rome    —112
Worship, freedom in to all Jews    —46
Worship in Greece more refined than in Babylon and Medo-Persia    —182
Worship, Nebuchadnezzar lost spirit of true    —39
Worship of Medes, purity of    —77
Worship of Christians, peculiarities of    —220
Worship of God is spiritual    —40
Worship of Jehovah known in isles of Greece    —181
Worship, spiritual, paganism ignorant of    —40
Worship, sternness of in Rome    —208
Worship, true freedom in    —39
Worship, vilest practiced in Babylon    —55
Wrath, Daniel did nothing to provoke    —83
Writing, on the wall, Daniel reads    —72
Wycliffe, Bible translated by    —239
Wycliffe, work of like Daniel’s    —239


  X
Xerxes a cruel man    —176
Xerxes and Haman, servants of Satan    —174
Xerxes’ army, size of    —106
Xerxes defeated    —176
Xerxes, dealings of with Jews    —170
Xerxes, extent of kingdom of    —106
Xerxes, history of    —170
Xerxes, last king of Medo-Persia mentioned by Daniel    —176
Xerxes, riches of    —170
Xerxes the Ahasuerus of Esther    —170
Xerxes, when he crossed the Hellespont    —106


  Y
Young, God loves    —173
Young Jews lingered among heathen    —120
Young men, character of in Daniel’s time    —20
Youth who learned of rabbis crucified Christ    —192


  Z
Zeal of early church    —219
Zebedee’s sons, a place asked for    —254
Zechariah a prophet in Jerusalem    —166
Zechariah, time of vision of    —170
Zedekiah afraid to obey God    —19
Zedekiah, how he could have saved Jerusalem    —37
Zedekiah, why condemned and approved, too    —73
Zedekiah’s chance to save Jerusalem    —18



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