Introductory Questions
Title, Dedication, and Foreword
Study I - Earth's Night Of Sin To Terminate
In A Morning Of Joy -- A Night of Weeping and a
Morning of Joy -- Two Methods of Seeking Truth -- The Method Herein
Pursued -- Scope of the Work -- A Difference Between the Reverent Study of
the Scriptures and the Dangerous Habit of Speculation -- The Object of
Prophecy -- The Present Religious Condition of the World Viewed from Two
Standpoints -- Egyptian Darkness -- A Bow of Promise -- The Path of the
Just Progressive -- Cause of the Great Apostasy -- The Reformation -- The
Same Cause Again Hinders Real Progress -- Perfection of Knowledge Not a
Thing of the Past, but of the Future.
Study II - The Existence Of A Supreme Intelligent
Creator Established -- Evidence Aside from the Bible,
Examined in the Light of Reason--An Untenable Theory--A Reasonable
Theory--The Character of God Demonstrated --Reasonable Deductions.
Study III - The Bible As A Divine Revelation Viewed
In The Light Of Reason -- The Claims of the Bible and
its Surface Evidence of Credibility--Its Antiquity and Preservation--Its
Moral Influence--Motives of the Writers--General Character of the
Writings--The Books of Moses-- The Law of Moses--Peculiarities of the
Government Instituted by Moses--It was not a System of
Priestcraft--Instructions to Civil Rulers--Rich and Poor on a Common Level
Before the Law--Safeguards Against Tampering With the Rights of the
People--The Priesthood Not a Favored Class, How Supported,
etc.--Oppression of Foreigners, Widows, Orphans and Servants Guarded
Against--The Prophets of the Bible--Is There a Common Bond of Union
Between the Law, the Prophets and the New Testament Writers?--Miracles Not
Unreasonable--The Reasonable Conclusion.
Study IV - The Epochs And Dispensations Marked
In The Development Of The Divine Plan -- God's Plan
Definite and Systematic--Three Great Epochs of the
World's History--Their Distinctive Features--"The Earth
Abideth Forever"-- The World to Come, the New Heavens and
Earth--Subdivisions of These Great Epochs--The Important Features
of God's Plan thus Brought to View--Order Recognized Discloses
Harmony--Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth.
Study V - "The Mystery Hid From Ages And From
Generations, But Now Made Manifest To His Saints" -- Col. 1:26 --
The Glimmering Light of the First Promise--The Promise to
Abraham-- Hope Deferred--The Mystery Begins to Unravel at Pentecost--What
the Mystery Is--Why So Long Kept a Mystery--Still a Mystery to the
World--In Due Time to be Made Manifest to All--When the Mystery Will be
Finished.
Study VI - Our Lord's Return -- Its Object, The
Restitution Of All Things -- Our Lord's Second
Advent Personal and Pre-Millennial--Its Relationship to the First
Advent--The Selection of the Church and the Conversion of the
World--Election and Free Grace--Prisoners of Hope-- Prophetic Testimony
regarding Restitution--Our Lord's Return Manifestly the Hope of the Church
and the World.
Study VII - The Permission Of Evil And Its
Relation To God's Plan -- Why Evil was
Permitted--Right and Wrong as Principles--The Moral Sense--God Permitted
Evil, and will Overrule it for Good--God not the Author of Sin--Adam's
Trial not a Farce--His Temptation Severe --He Sinned Wilfully--The Penalty
of Sin not Unjust, nor Too Severe--The Wisdom, Love and Justice Displayed
in Condemning All in Adam--God's Law Universal.
Study VIII - The Day Of Judgment --
The General View of the Day of Judgment--Is it
Scriptural?--The Terms, Judgment and Day, Defined--Several Judgment Days
Referred to in the Scriptures--The First Judgment Day and its
Results--Another Appointed --The Judge--The Character of the Coming
Judgment--Similarity and Dissimilarity of the First and Second
Judgments--The World's Present Accountability--Two Intervening Judgments
and Their Objects--Widely Different Estimates of the Coming Judgment-- How
Prophets and Apostles Viewed it.
Study IX - Ransom And Restitution --
The Restitution Guaranteed by the Ransom--Not Everlasting
Life, but a Trial for it, Secured by the Ransom--The Conditions and
Advantages of the Trial--Christ's Sacrifice Necessary--How the Race Could
be and was Redeemed by the Death of One--Faith and Works Still Necessary
--The Wages of Wilful Sin Certain--Will there be Room on the Earth for the
Resurrected Millions?--Restitution versus Evolution.
Study X - Spiritual And Human Natures Separate
And Distinct -- Common Misapprehensions--Earthly or
Human and Heavenly or Spiritual Natures--Earthly Glory and Heavenly
Glory--Bible Testimony Regarding Spirit Beings--Mortality and
Immortality--Can Mortal Beings Have Everlasting Life?--Justice in the
Bestowment of Favors-- A Supposed Principle Examined--Variety in
Perfection--God's Sovereign Rights--God's Provisions for Man a Satisfying
Portion--The Election of the Body of Christ--How their Change of Nature is
Effected.
Study XI - The Three Ways -- The Broad Way, The
Narrow Way, The Highway -- The Broad Road to
Destruction--The Narrow Way to Life--What is Life?--The Divine Nature--The
Relationship of the Divine and Human Natures--The Reward at the End of the
Narrow Way--The High Calling Limited to the Gospel Age--Difficulties and
Dangers of the Narrow Way--The Highway of Holiness.
Study XII - Explanation Of Chart Representing
The Plan Of The Ages -- The Ages--The
Harvests--Planes of Actual and Reckoned Standing--The Course of our Lord
Jesus--The Course of His Followers--Three Classes in the Nominal
Church--Separation in the Harvest--The Anointed Class Glorified--The Great
Tribulation Class--The Tares Burned-- The World Blessed--The Outcome
Glorious.
Study XIII - The Kingdoms Of This World
-- The First Dominion--Its Forfeiture--Its Redemption and
Restoration-- The Typical Kingdom of God--The Usurper--Two Phases of the
Present Dominion--The Powers that be, Ordained of God--Nebuchadnezzar's
View of Them--Daniel's View and Interpretation--The Kingdoms of this World
viewed from another Standpoint--The Proper Relationship of the Church to
Present Governments--The Divine Right of Kings Briefly Examined--Claims of
Christendom False--A Better Hope in the Fifth Universal Empire.
Study XIV - The Kingdom Of God -- Prominence of the Subject--The Character of the Kingdom--The
Kingdom During the Gospel Age--False Views Corrected by Paul--Results of
False Ideas of the Kingdom--Two Phases of the Kingdom of God-- The
Spiritual Phase and its Work--The Earthly Phase and its Work-- Their
Harmonious Operation--The Glory of the Earthly Phase--The Glory of the
Heavenly Phase--The Covenant Root from which These Branches Grow--The
Earthly Phase of the Kingdom, Israelitish--The Lost Tribes--The Heavenly
Jerusalem--Israel a Typical People--Israel's Loss and Recovery--The Elect
Classes--The Heirs of the Kingdom --The Iron Rule--An Illustration of the
Object of the Millennial Reign--The Kingdom Delivered to the Father--God's
Original Design Fully Accomplished.
Study XV - The Day Of Jehovah -- The "Day of Jehovah," the "Day of Vengeance," the "Day of
Wrath"--A Time of Great Trouble--Its Cause--The Bible's Testimony
Regarding it--Its Fire and Storm, Its Shaking and Melting, Shown to be
Symbolic --David's Testimony--The Revelator's Testimony--The Present
Situation and the Future Outlook as Viewed by the Opposing Parties,
Capitalists and Wage-Workers--A Remedy Which Will Not Succeed-- The Veil
Lifted and Light Admitted Just in Due Time--The Proof of This--The
Condition of the Saints During the Trouble, and Their Proper Attitude
Toward It.
Study XVI - Concluding Thoughts --
Our Duty Toward the Truth--Its Cost, Its Value, Its Profit.
Attachment - Chart of the Ages
