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Excerpt from The Last Message of Jesus Christ On one occasion the writer of this Introduction called upon the late Rev. Daniel D. Whedon, D.D., at his office in New York when he was engaged in writing his commentary on the book of Revelation. Dr. Whedon called special attention to the fact that he was deeply impressed with the value of the Apocalypse of John for the ministry of the church. He said that he was taking unusual pains with it because he believed that for the next quarter of a century this book would be employed more largely than ever before in the Christian pulpit, and he was anxious that the ministers who read it should be familiar with its sublime teachings. The prediction of Dr. Whedon has come to pass, and in the recent years the Apocalypse of Saint John has received the attention which it deserves, as an essential part of the Christian revelation. As a matter of intellectual interest the book of Revelation must arrest the attention. It treats of the sublimest subjects in a style so different from our ordinary modes of thinking and expression that at first the mind stumbles at it, but on closer study the texture of the book itself, its orderly arrangement, its symbolism, and its profound thought awakens the interest and demands the most profound scholarship. It is not the mere mystery of the book that has caused so many commentaries to be written upon it, but it is because those who have treated it have felt that it contains a message not only to their own age, but to subsequent ages. The book of Revelation is distinguished for its symbolism. 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.