Book excerpt: This volume presents the most wonderful and intensely interesting history that has ever been written of the great confilct between Christianity and the Powers of Darkness. The period of history covered is one of the deepest interest to all classes of readers. Beginning with our Lord's great prophecy given while viewing Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, in which He outlines the history of the whole dispensation, it sketches the fulfillment. It calls our attention to the bitter persecutions of the Christians in the first centuries, and notes the rise and growth of the Papacy. Considerable space is given to the life, work, and infuence of later reformers and great religious leaders, and this is followed by chapters treating upon The Orgin of Evil, The Agency of Evil Spirits, The Snares of Satan, and the Judgment. The closing chapters give a vivid picture of the warfare of the church, her final redemption, and vividly describe the triumph of the people of God, the destruction of Satan and all his followers, and the renewing of the earth, which ends the awful controversy between the Son og God and the Powers of Darkness. - 1. Destruction of Jerusalem. 2. Persecution in the First Centuries. 3. The Apostasy. 4. The Waldenses. 5. John Wycliffe. 6. Huss and Jerome. 7. Luther's Separation from Rome. 8. Luther Before the Diet. 9. The Swiss Reformer. 10. Progress of Reform in Germany. 11. Protest of the Princes. 12. The French Reformation. 13. In the Netherlands and Scandinavia. 14. Later English Reformers. 15. The Bible and the French Revolution. 16. The Pilgrim Fathers. 17. Heralds of the Morning. 18. An American Reformer. 19. Light Through Darkness. 20. A Great Religious Awakening. 21. A Warning Rejected. 22. Prophecies Fulfilled. 23. What Is the Sanctuary?. 24. In the Holy of Holies. 25. God's Law Immutable. 26. A Work of Reform. 27. Modern Revivals. 28. The Investigative Judgment. 29. The Origin of Evil. 30. Enmity Between Man and Satan. 31. Agency of Evil Spirits. 32. Snares of Satan. 33. The First Great Deception. 34. Spiritualism. 35. Character and Aims of the Papacy. 36. The Impending Conflict--Its Causes. 37. The Scriptures a Safeguard. 38. The Final Warning. 39. "The Time of Trouble". 40. God's People Delivered. 41. Desolation of the Earth. 42. The Controversy Ended. Appendix. Biographical Notes. Scriptural Index. General Index