Excerpt from The Coming Climax in the Destinies of America Realizing the gravity of the subjects with which the present treatise deals, I think a word is due to the reader, not as to the author's logic, for of this every 'critic must judge for himself, but as to his knowledge of the facts with which he deals. Lester C. Hubbard was born on the Western Reserve in Ohio, of a family that settled ln New England in the seventeenth century. He was a private soldier and afterwards a captain in the civil war. After the war he studied law, but soon took up newspaper work and has had long prao tical experience on newspapers in leading cities, East and West. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.