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 jo The Plan of the Ages.

As though by instinct, the whole creation, while it groans and travails in pain, waits for, longs for and hopes for the DAY, calling it the Golden Age; yet men grope blindly, because not aware of the great Jehovah's gracious purposes. But their highest conceptions of such an age fall far short of what the reality will be. The great Creator is preparing a "feast of fat things/ ' which will astound his creatures, and be exceedingly, abundantly beyond what they could reasonably ask or expert. And to his wondering creatures, looking at the length and breadth, the height and depth oi the love of God, surpassing all expedition, he explains: " My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord ; for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 7 ' Isa. 55 : 8, 9.

Though in this work we shall endeavor, and we trust with success, to set before the interested and unbiased reader the plan of God as it relates to and explains the past, the pres- ent and the future of his dealings, in a way more harmonious, beautiful and reasonable than is generally understood, yet that this is the result of extraordinary wisdom or ability on the part of the writer is positively disclaimed. It is ihe light from the Sun of Righteousness in this dawning of the Millennial Day that reveals these things as " present truth/' now due to be appreciated by the sincere the pure in heart.

Since skepticism is rife, the very foundation of true re- ligion, and the foundation of truth, is questioned often, even by the sincere. We have endeavored to uncover enough of the foundation upon which all faith should be built the Word of God to give confidence and assurance in its testimony, even to the unbeliever. And we have en- deavored to do this in a manner that will appeal to and can be accepted by reason as a foundation. Then we have en- deavored to build upon that foundation the teachings of

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