THE OBJECT AND PLAN OF THE PRESENT WORK.

Every one who really values Scripture as the word of God, must regard the book of Revelation as being of considerable importance to Christians; this importance must be felt to exist wholly apart from any real or supposed ability to interpret the things which are written therein. No book of the New Testament is pressed upon our attention with more solemn sanctions; “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things which are written in it;” this alone is sufficient to show us that if we desire, as believers in Christ, to have fellowship with the mind of God and to have our thoughts subject to His will, this book will occupy no small share of our attention. It may be that we have but little intelligence of its general structure, or of its specific interpretation, but still it is our place to keep the things written in it, even as Mary who though she little understood the things which were told her, yet kept them and pondered them in her heart. Surely as we hold fast the word of God in all its parts, we may expect, through prayer and the teaching of the Holy Ghost, to become more acquainted with the truths therein written both in their detail and their practical power.