The book opens with the sad closing scenes of Jerusalem's history, the city of God's
chosen, after her rejection of the Man of Calvary, who came to save. Thence onward along
the great highway of the nations, it points us to the persecutions of God's children in
the first centuries; the great apostasy which followed in His church; the world-awakening
of the reformation, in which some of the great principles of the controversy are clearly
manifest; the awful lesson of the rejection of right principles by France; the revival and
exaltation of the scriptures, and their beneficent, life-saving influence; the religious
awakening of the last days; the unsealing of the radiant fountain of God's word, with its
wonderful revelations of light and knowledge to meet the baleful upspringing of every
delusion of darkness.
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