BY THE SAME AUTHOR. UNFOLDINGS OF CHRISTIAN HOPE. AN ESSAY showing that the Doctrine contained in the Damnatory Clauses of the Creed commonly called Athanasian is Unscriptural. Small Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 48. 6d. C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON. THE APOCALYPSE VIEWED UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE DOCTRINES OF THE UNFOLDING AGES AND THE RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS. BY CHARLES B. WALLER, M.A., VICAR OF WOODFORD BRIDGE, ESSEX; 66 AUTHOR OF ESSAY, UNFOLDINGS OF CHRISTIAN HOPE." C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. PREFACE. THE age in which we live is a most important crisis in the history of the world. The moral sense is most active, as likewise the critical faculty in man. By these advances have been made, and positions occupied, which are antagonistic to hitherto received religious dogmas. There are thus oppositions: on the one side, there is distrust and anxiety; on the other, a growing hostility to some stereotyped religious opinions. So long as this continues, there is increasing discouragement to true Christian hearts, and despondency deepens. We are, however, not in despair. We believe in the truth of God's Word; and that God will make clear to us in His own good time what is now perplexing; and that without diminishing one iota from the truth He has revealed. The means whereby He will accomplish this is |