Excerpt from Our Lord's Great Prophecy: And Its Parallels Throughout the Bible, Harmonized and Expounded; Comprising a Review of the Common Figurative Theories of Interpretation, With a Particular Examination of the Principal Passages Relating to the Second Coming of Christ, the End of the Worl The preparation of the work for the press, however, has been hurried: too much hurried, probably, for the author's personal good, or for the popularity of his publication. It has all been written within the last twelve months. And the labor of composing has been continually interrupted - some times for several weeks together - by much personal illness, by almost continual family affliction, by unusually heavy pas toral labors, by a number of calls for extra lectures and ad dresses, at home, and in other places; not to mention the perplexities and delays occasioned by a change of residence, and the necessary additions to ordinary ministerial labor, in closing up the affairs of one charge and beginning those of another. A large proportion of the work has been composed while the majority, perhaps, of its readers were quietly slumbering. With these facts before him, the candid, and especially the Christian, reader will not fail tomake some allowance for such errors and imperfections as must, in the nature of things, more or less mar the productions of human wisdom. Let the critic remember that the golden rule applies to all things whatso ever and, consequently, it must apply to criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.