CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

PROLOGUE.

CHAPTER.

I. TWENTY FIVE YEARS LATER
II. A "SUPER MAN"
III. "TO THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL"
IV. FORESHADOWINGS
V. CRUEL AS THE GRAVE!
VI. "A REED LIKE A ROD"
VII. "THE MARK OF THE BEAST"
VIII. THE INVESTITURE
IX. THE DEDICATION
X. A LEBANON ROSE
XI. HERO WORSHIP
XII. ANTI-"WE-ISM"
XIII. "THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION"
XIV. DEATH OF THE "TWO WITNESSES"
XV. FLIGHT! PURSUIT!
XVI. MARTYRED
XVII. A GATHERING UP

ILLUSTRATION

The Mark of the Beast

PREFACE.

The great acceptance with which the Author's previous volume "In the
Twinkling of an Eye" was received, when published in Oct. 1910,
together with the many records of blessing resulting from the perusal,
leads him to hope that the present volume may prove equally useful.

The subjects treated in this volume are possibly less known, (even
among _some_ who hold the truth of the Lord's _Near_ Return in joyful
Hope) than the subjects handled "In the Twinkling of an Eye," but they
certainly should have as much interest as the earlier truths, and
should lead (those hitherto unacquainted with them) to a careful,
prayerful searching of "The Word."

The Author would here mark his indebtedness to Dr. Joseph A. Seiss, and
Dr. Campbell Morgan, for the inceptive thoughts _re_ Judas Iscariot,
and The Antichrist. Dr. Campbell Morgan's very remarkable sermon on
"Christ and Judas"--under date December 18, 1908--while being
profoundly interesting and illuminating, it has proved to the Author to
be the only sound theory of explanation of that perplexing
personality--Judas Iscariot--he has ever met.

While cleaving close to Scripture, at the same time it has settled the
life-long perplexity of the writer of this book, as to the difficulties
surrounding "The Traitor."

The fictional form has again been adopted in this volume, for the same
reasons that obtained in the writing of "In the Twinkling of an Eye."
The use of the fictional style for the presentment of sacred subjects
is ever a moot-point with some people. Yet, every parable, allegory,
etc., (not excepting Bunyan's Master-piece) is _fictional_ form. So
that the moot-point really becomes one of _degree_ and not of
_principle_--if Bunyan, Milton, and Dante, be allowed to be right.
Certain it is that many thousands have read, and have been awakened,
quickened, even converted, by re