THE 



LIGHT IN THE EAST, 



A COMPREHENSIVE RELIGIOUS WORK, 



EMBRACING THE LIFE OF 



OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, 



AND THE LIVES OF HIS HOLY APOSTLES AND EVANGELISTS. 



BY REV. JOHN FJLKETWOOD, D.D. 



Together with the LIVES of the PATRIARCHS and PROPHETS, and of the Mos 



Eminent Christian MARTYRS, FATHERS and REFORMERS. To 



which is added the HISTORY OF THE JEWS, from the 



Earliest Times to the Present Day, and a 



HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS OF THE WORLD, 



BOTH A.NOIENT .AJVD MODERN. 



ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 200 FINE ENGRAVINGS. 



The object of this work is to present to the reader a full, comprehensive and intelligent 

 account of the Life, Ministry and Sufferings of our Blessed Redeemer. On all sides there is 

 a growing demand for some plain and forcible illustration of the Life and Teachings of Our 

 Saviour while on earth, which, unmarred by the errors and theories of MODERN PHILOSOPHY, 

 shall serve as an assistance to the faithful student of the Gospel story. Swflh a work is needed 

 in every household to strengthen the faith of the aged, and to keep the feet of the yourvg in 

 the narrow way. The Lives of the Apostles and Evunyclietx are given in full, and to them ara 

 added biographies of the other New Testament characters. It will be found a great assist- 

 ance to an intelligent comprehension of Christ's ministry to be thoroughly instructed in the 

 history of those who were his intimate friends and the agents of his power, 



The Lioen of the Patriarchs itnd Prophets embrace comprehensive accounts of the most 

 noted Old Testament characters, a knowledge of whose lives is essential to a proper under- 

 standing of that of our Saviour, who was the fulfilment of the Old Dispensation. The work 

 would be incomplete did it fail to trace the spread of Christianity from the days of th 

 Apostles to the modern era. This is done in a series of biogrnphies of the Early Christian 

 M<trt;/rs, Fathers and Reformers, embracing a period from St. John to the Reformation, and 

 showing how the truth was established and witnessed, under God, by those noble men. To 

 this is added a Hixtory of the Jews from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, which is vt.'ry 

 complete and comprehensive, and no more interesting narrative is to be found in the pages 

 of history. 



The History of all Religious Denominations comprises a series of comprehensive accounts 

 of the various forms of truth and error which have prevailed in the world. A proper under- 

 standing of this subject will do much to soften denominational asperities and to teach us 

 that respect for the religious belief of our brethren, which should be the distinguishing mark 

 of a Christian. The Chronological Table will be found especially valuable and interesting; 

 and will enable the reader to mark the progress of the outside world, while Israel was work* 

 ing out her destiny. 



One of the great merits of this work is that it comprises in ono large volume that which 

 i usually spread out through a great many books, so that it may be said it is in effect a 

 complete library of religious literature in itself. The Editor has been extremely desirous 

 of including in it all that it is essential for a Christian to know, and much that is pleasant to 

 read of. Nothing necessary to a full nd intelligent understanding of the truths of revealed 

 religion has been omitted, and the book is perfectly free from sectarian bias, its aim being to 

 promote the cause of the one indivisible Church. 



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