The science of Christian economy; the everlasting gospel

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Chapter I. The Crystal Palace, - - - - 19-48

The inland sea; the great sea wall; the yawning chasm; the crystal palace; the pictures of the four wings; the seven gates; the south apartment; the east apartment; the north apartment; the central room; the west apartment.

Chapter VI. The Mosaic Law, ----- 70-128

The giving of the law; the sign of the law; the temple, and its arrangements; the law God's testimony; law of equal exchange; the ransom price; law of individuality; manner of sacrifice; the law of the burnt offering; the law of the peace offering; the law of the sin offering, for the ruler, for the people, for the priest, for the congregation; the law of the trespass offering; the law of the atonement; the fat and the blood; the feast of the sabbath; the feast of the passov'er; the feast of pentecost; the feast of tabernacles; the release; law of usury; the law of redemption; the water of separation; the order of the tribes; the Levites the firstborn of Israel; the promise; the warning; the exhortation.

Chapter VII. Sketches of Ancient History, - - 129-149

Babylon, the land of the captivity; Roman history; the Christ.

BOOK SECOND Chapter I, ----- - 161-175

Proof of the continuity of life; the divinity of Christ; the second coming of Christ; Christ's first costume; explanation of the costume; the identity; the instruction.

The promise of Life; Liberty; Regeneration; Individuality; Justice; Authority; Security.

The promise of Honor; Reliability; Knowledge; Social Recognition; Supreme Power.

The throne room; the elders; the seven lamps of fire; the four beasts.

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Chapter V, 227-237

The book of the law; the seven seals; the interdependency of man the law of race progress; the finding of one able to open the book; the identity of the lamb; the new song of redemption.

Chapter VI, 238-257

The opening of the first seal; preservation, sustentation, and assimilation; the opening of the second seal; labor, self-sacrifice, and reward; the opening of the third seal; power, riches, and honor; the opening of the fourth seal; equality, poise, and progress; the opening of the fifth seal; faith, trust, and patience; the opening of the sixth seal; darkness, doubt, and fear — light, obedience, and peace.

Chapter VII, - 258-263

The four angels at the four corners of the earth; the number of the sealed; the acclamation of those sealed; the award to those sealed.

The opening of the seventh seal; destruction, possession, and suppression — regeneration, redemption, and realization. At the sounding of the first angel; at the sounding of the second angel; at the sounding of the third angel; at the sounding of the fourth angel; woe, woe, woe.

Chapter IX, - 274-284

At the sounding of the fifth angel; at the sounding of the sixth angel; the cry for liberty; at the loosing of the four angels.

Christ's second costume; explanation of the costume; the little book; the seven thunders; the end of time; the property sacrifice; the two great branches of the church.

Chapter XI, 290-300

God's plan; the two witnesses; the candlestick and the two olive trees; power of the two witnesses; the beast out of the bottomless pit; the identity

IT of the two witnesses; the destruction of the two' witnesses; the restoring of the two witnesses to life; the ascending of the two witnesses into heaven; the announcement of the third woe; at the sounding of the seventh angel.

A great wonder in heaven; the dragon of the double contract system or the first beast; the seven heads and the ten horns; Life and Liberty; economic betrayal; the rod of iron; the law of progress; war in heaven; the casting out of the dragon; sketch of present economic situation; the coming of salvation; persecution of the woman. ^

The first beast; ten crowns upon the horns; the seat of the beast; the deadly wound in one of the heads; the power of the beast; the second beast; the mark, the name of the beast, and the number of his name; the number 666.

The lamb and the hundred and forty-four thousand on Mount Zion; the voice of many waters; the new song; another flying angel; the proclamation of the angel; the third angel; the proclamation of the angel; a voice from heaven; he that sat on the white cloud; the proclamation of the fourth angel; the clusters of the yine reaped; a fifth angel; a sixth angel; the casting of the vine into the winepress; the trodding of the winepress without the city; the single contract system.

Another sign in heaven; seven last plagues; the sea of glass mingled with fire; victory over the beast, over his image, over his mark, and over the number of his name; the harps of God; the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb; the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony; the seven angels with the seven plagues; seven golden vials; until the seven plagues were fulfilled.

Chapter XVI, " 357-364

A great voice out of the temple; at the pouring of . the first vial; at the pouring of the second vial; at the pouring of the third vial; at the pouring of the fourth vial; at the pouring of the fifth vial; at the pouring of the sixth vial; at the pouring of the seventh vial.

The judgment of the great whore; Mystery; Babylon the Great; the woman drunken with blood; the mystery of the woman; the beast that carrieth her; the seven mountains upon which the woman sitteth; the seven kings; the eighth king; ten horns; the ten kings; these which shall make war with the Lamb; the waters, the peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues; the persecution of the woman.

Fall of Babylon; the separation; the plagues in one day; the bewailing of kings; the weeping of merchants; numeration of the merchandise; the lament of shipmasters and sailors; the saints avenged; the casting of the millstone into the sea; the desolation of Babylon; the blood of all slain.

The praising of God in heaven for His righteous judgments; the marriage of the lamb; the marriage supper; the rebuking of John by the angel; the white horse and he that sat on him; the armies that follow him; the sWord which shall smite the nations; the rod of iron; the treading of the winepress; the invitation to the supper; the perpetration of war by the beast and the kings of the earth against he that sitteth on the horse.

The binding of Satan for a thousand years; the first resurrection; the loosing of Satan; the casting of the devil into the lake of fire and brimstone; the great white throne; at the opening of the books.

CONTENTS Chapter XXI, - 393-403

A new heaven and a new earth; the heavenly Jerusalem; a description of the city.

The river of the water of life; the tree of life; God the light of the city; the warning.

Chapter XXIII— The Author's Note, 409-420 Index, - - - - - - - 421-429

INTRODUCTION

OF the numberless millions who have made their appearance on this earth, have lived out the brief period apportioned to them and have passed from the stage of action there is one who stands preeminent above them all. This is Jesus Who is called the Christ. What were the favorable circumstances which gave to Jesus of Nazareth the prize for which there were no less than fifty aspirants ? What were the elements which entered into the life, character, and teachings of Jesus which have clothed Him with a radiance of ever increasing luster? Perhaps no other fact more fully substantiates Christ's claim to the Messiahship than that both in character, and in historical events woven about Him, He was found to have fulfilled the prophecies which preceded His coming by many years, and but for which, His birth probably would have passed unnoticed. But it cannot be said that in fulfilling the prophecies Christ fulfilled the ultimate purpose of His mission, but rather that by reason of His having fulfilled the prophecies the world has been able to recognize His legal claim to the Messiahship. By such means His identity has been established.

That Christ should have fulfilled the prophetic vision which was related of Him was but preliminary to what seems the paramount purpose of His mission — the fulfilling of the Mosaic Law. The Mosaic Law deals almost wholly with economic problems while the Gospel records weigh heavily upon the problem of

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spiritual Hfe; which subjects are neither foreign nor conflicting to each other but, touching the vital problems of life, though from different angles, seem to run parallel. Occasionally through His intellectual resplendency there is disclosed the trend of thought with which He labored: "Whosoever hath, to him shall be given and he shall have abundance, but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath." Such statements can only refer to economic problems. The four Gospels are replete with evidence that Christ regarded Himself as the open portal to the kingdom of life, light, and righteousness : / am the water of life; I am the bread of life; I am the door of the sheep; and many others bear evidence to this fact. Though these statements have been interpreted entirely in a spiritual sense their bearing on economic problems may be perceived.

The fact that Christ wrote nothing, and that nowhere, either in the four Gospels or in the Epistles, is there to be found a comprehensive declaration of His principles on either of these subjects has been the source of endless controversy in which the economic problem has been almost wholly unrecognized. But to all the principal points Mn Christian doctrine Christ has made reply, and to the profound problems of political economy His answer is both final and complete.