COMING STRUGGLE AMONG Che Nations of the Earth: OR, THE POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE NEXT THIRTEEN YEARS, DESCRIBED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROPHECIES IN EZEKIEL, DANIEL, SHEWING ALSO THE IMPORTANT POSITION BRITAIN WILL OCCUPY DURING By John Thomas TORONTO: THOMAS MACLEAR, 45, YONGE STREET. 4776.53 Harvard College Library Luther S. Livingston, IN! CT 1978 AUTHOR'S PREFACE. The above is the title of the pamphlet already referred to in our strictures upon the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy. There are several vulnerable positions, assumed by the compiler of its pages, which it is remarkable the reviewers have not seized upon in demonstration of the supposed unscriptural conclusions it contains. But critical orthodox ignorance has been the compiler's safety. "Theology" has blinded the eyes of "the ministry" so that they cannot see afar off. "Divines," therefore, being in the dark, and the people being led by them, it is "like priests, like people ;" all are in the fog, and the errors of The Coming Struggle have escaped detection. In the following pages this renowned pamphlet is not reproduced as it came from the Edinburgh press. I have expurgated it of what I consider its untenable assumptions, and in so doing have converted it into a brochure properly my own. The original pamphlet undertook to present my views of the next fifteen years. But no one can present the views of another with sufficient precision to satisfy the original thinker. "The Coming Struggle" does not satisfy me. I have therefore revised and corrected it, as well as I could without re-writing the whole. I have made three hundred and twelve corrections on the thirty-two pages, which have materially altered the sense of the compilation in many places. I . should not, however, have presumed to do this, but for the peculiar relation I sustain to the original. I am not able to say who the artist is that has undertaken to work up my published ideas of things into "The Coming Struggle." |