Excerpt from War and the New Earth: Sermon Preached by Rev. Hugh Pedley, D.D., In Emmanuel Congregational Church, Montreal, Sunday Evening, May 30th, 1915 And these all having had witness borne to them through their faith received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that apart from us they shouldnot be made perfect. Peter speaking to Christian men whose faith was being tested by persecution says: But inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings. Rejoice. That at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy. The the book of Revelation, while it has many tragic aspects, is not a tragedy. A tragedy always has a mournful outcome. It ends in sadness. So the play of Othello finishes with the death of Desdemona, and the suicide of Othello. The play of Hamlet ends with the taking off of the distraught Ophelia, and the melancholy Dane himself But the book of Revelation with its great drama of human history, with its references to war, famine and pestilence, with its description of fierce beasts and malicious devils brings us at last to a sight of the new heavens and the new earth, the new Jerusalem: Coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 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.