WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. The Book of Revelation in Diagram. A useful Appendix to Sketches of Primeval History. No Priests of God upon Earth Body of Christ. Price 4d. Original Hymns and Tunes. Quarto, cloth, price 2s. Crown 8vo., cloth, price 2s. Fifth Edition. Price 6d. independently of the Entire For Harmonium or Organ. EARTH'S EVENTIDE AND THE Bright Dawn of the Eternal Day. BY THE REV. J. G. GREGORY, M.A., INCUMBENT OF EMMANUEL CHURCH, HOVE, BRIGHTON; FIFTH EDITION. LONDON: BIBLIOTHER S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO., 9, PATERNOSTER ROW. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE OUTLINES of the several subjects which are contained in this volume were arranged for, and delivered in the form of, "ADVENT LECTURES," in the years 1861 and 1862. Having filled up these outlines with many details which appear to me important, I venture to commit them to the printer's hand, and thence to send them forth for the consideration of those Students of the Prophetical Scriptures who may be disposed to read them. For adding thus to the already overwhelming mass of commentaries on the Word of God, it will be needful that I offer but this brief apology,-several Christian friends having heard the Lectures delivered, made request that I would publish them. Conscious am I truly of defects, which the critic will discover readily. But let him not be too severe; let him believe, rather, that my object is the spiritual welfare of our fellow-Christians, and let him deal with |