Light on the Last Things

An excerpt from the first chapter: NEW TRUTH FOR A NEW AGE. "And I saw heaven opened."-Rev. XIX. 11. THE mental activity of our age is Without a parallel in history. The human mind is wider awake than ever before. Rational inquiry, upon all subjects, is pursued with greater animation and a quicker intelligence, than it used to be in the former ages. Since the middle of the last century a new era, - by common consent, - has dawned in human affairs; and human society everywhere wears a new as...