A Few Explanatory Remarks

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Before we go any further it will be well to make a few explanatory remarks to enable the reader to follow intelligently the course of history in this connection. We must not imagine that there is nothing but declension and apostasy. On the contrary, God ever and anon gives a gracious, spiritual revival; a call to men to embrace the true light. Moreover in the darkest days there are always some who are faithful and true, and it is delightful to trace all this. In the end God will triumph, and His truth and counsels prevail. We must not be like Elijah, who cried out in despair, "I, even I only, am left" (1 Kings 19:1414And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. (1 Kings 19:14)), yet all the time there were seven thousand, who bravely refused to bow the knee to Baal.
Our sketch must perforce be rapid and partial, and we therefore confine most of our remarks to the happenings in this country, for to notice the whole field would be an immense task, and outside the range of a pamphlet.