Key to the Science of Theology
The present is an age of progress, of change, of rapid advance, and of wonderful revolutions.
The very foundations of society—social, political, commercial, moral and religious—seem to be shaken as with a mighty earthquake, from center to circumference. All things tremble, creation groans, the world is in travail and pains to be delivered.
A new era has dawned upon our planet, and is advancing with accelerated force, with giant strides.
The railroads and the steamboats, with their progressive improvements in speed, safety and convenience, are extending and multiplying the means of travel, of trade, of association and intercommunication between countries whose inhabitants have been comparatively unknown to, or estranged from, each other.
For these reasons, perhaps more than any other, the master spirits of the age are breaking loose from the old moorings and withdrawing from established and venerated systems by which means society is distracted, divided, broken up, thrown, as it were, into a chaos of confused, disorganized individualization, without a standard or rallying point, without a nucleus by which to concentrate or reorganize this chaotic mass, these atoms of thought.
A Voice of Warning
This work is intended as a warning voice or proclamation of truth to all people into whose hands it may fall, that they may understand, and be prepared for the great day of the Lord. Opinion and guess-work in the things of God are worse than useless; facts, well demonstrated, can alone be of service to mankind. And as the Holy Ghost can alone guide us into all truth, we pray God the Eternal Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, His Son, that the Spirit of Truth may inspire our heart in inditing this matter, that we may be able to write the truth in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that it may be the word of God, the everlasting gospel, the power of God unto salvation to the Gentile first, and also to the Jew.
