Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... who conquered, this change of name did not destroy existence. If others have had their territorial limits changed, the nation was still there. If others have fallen whilst successors were forming in their room, the ten horns were still there. If during a few years out of a thousand, there were more than ten; if some temporary power reared its head, seeming to claim a place with the rest, and soon disappeared, it has not caused the beast to have less than ten horns. CHAPTER LXVII. Means of Rescue.--Other instances of inattention noticed. In prosecuting the all-important inquiry, "Is this Book from heaven?" I was at last compelled to confess that I had been ignorant of the contents of the Bible. I had read it and heard it read all my life, excepting the five or six years of my established infidelity, but of its contents I was darkly ignorant, and I discovered that my unbelieving companions were equally unacquainted with the holy page, and with the literature connected with its words. I discovered that men had read history recorded after it had been acted, that they had read the same history in the Bible, told beforehand, that it would transpire; that one was as plain as the other; whilst the reader noticed it not, he observed it not. Instances like this properly enumerated and explained, would swell volumes; but I shall have space for one example only. Or rather a single case at present must suffice us, for if one sample will not persuade the reader to look into the Bible, others will fail to win his attention. Instances of reading and not understanding that which is as plain as simple words ever are. I had read the history of Egypt and of Syria, whilst the Grecian monarchs sat on those thrones. I knew that Syria was north of Egypt, and of...
